Building new knees for our new dyneema cap shroud chainplates

During the plenty of bad weather times last week we removed the old single port knee and fitted two new knees for our main mast cap shroud, the dyneema chainplate knot will fit between them.
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[@langalex]

any chance the original knee was angled so that it was in line with the shroud? 😅

[@SustainableSailing]

That would seem logical.
However, the original drawings have a a comment "Mast Upright" and the shroud is drawn following the centre of the mast all the way down. In addition our spreaders are at right angles to the mast. I'd have to put a line across the boat to check but from memory the knees are very close if not perfectly aligned with the compression post. Also as this is the port side the angle would suggest that the shroud base were forward of the mast (you can see in the video that it is closer to the forward [right] knee at the bottom).
So I'm going to go that it was an accident :-)

[@bilbywalkabout2969]

Tricky works but looks like a good job

[@SustainableSailing]

Thanks. We do feel that we are getting better at tabbing although this was quite a tight gap to get the tabbing between the knees.