RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What are these cables for?

[Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

Avoiding entanglement... makes things ride up and over.

- Alec

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buchner [mailto:buchner@wcta.net]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:16 AM
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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What are these cables for?


http://www.uk-muenchen.de/fotos/kriegsmarine/wien/u2auftauchen.html

I like the railing, but what are the big cables running to bow and stern
from the top of the sail? I can't imagine they're needed to hold it up,
because that would be a pretty flimsy u-boat, indeed.