Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. A Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior...
Alan Gilbert was S&S's Chief Engineer for many years. A brilliant Engineer that I had the pleasure of sailing with many times. I believe he is still working in the industry today in his own consulting service. This article from 1980 explains how it worked in the S&S...
And when you compare Bread and Sleeper, they are almost assuredly two different boats. Bread had an early version of rope clutches in 1979 and Sleeper is still a winch farm today. I wonder how many of these are sitting in the back of old yards, rotting.