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You are preparing to lubricate standing rigging on your vessel. Which is TRUE when rigging a bosun's chair on a stay with a shackle?

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You are preparing to lubricate standing rigging on your vessel. Which is TRUE when rigging a bosun's chair on a stay with a shackle?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Bosun's chair safety when hoisting a person aloft • Correct use of a gantline (the line used to hoist the chair) with hardware like shackles • How to avoid single‑point failure if a shackle or knot loosens

💭 Think About

• Think about what happens if the shackle pin starts to back out or the shackle opens—what arrangement of line and hardware keeps the person safest? • Which option ensures that, even if metal hardware fails or moves on the stay, the chair is still directly and securely attached to the gantline? • Consider where friction and movement will occur on the stay—how should the shackle and line be arranged to reduce wear and dangerous shifting?

✅ Before You Answer

• Which method avoids relying solely on metal‑to‑metal contact (shackle/stay) as the only securement point? • Which option keeps the gantline directly fast to the chair, not just indirectly through a shackle? • Which choice prevents a situation where loosening of the shackle pin could drop the chair entirely?

Question 1 of 27070

You are preparing to lubricate standing rigging on your vessel. Which is TRUE when rigging a bosun's chair on a stay with a shackle?

Tie the bitter end of the gantline to the shackle before shackling it to the bosun's chair

Run the gantline through the shackle and then make fast to the bosun's chair

Never allow the shackle pin to ride on the stay

Connect the shackle to the bosun's chair with a hook

Question 1 / 2707066636ef128f7522a1c522d1f

Question 1 of 2707066636ef128f7522a1c522d1f

You are preparing to lubricate standing rigging on your vessel. Which is TRUE when rigging a bosun's chair on a stay with a shackle?

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Question 1 of 27070

You are preparing to lubricate standing rigging on your vessel. Which is TRUE when rigging a bosun's chair on a stay with a shackle?