Highfield lever Highfield lever A Highfield lever is a lever device which allows tension to be rapidly set up in a wire and equally rapidly released to the required extent. It is frequently used in sailing boats where tension in some part of the rigging needs to be adjusted to a pre-set amount as the wind impinges on one side of the sails or the other. It is typically used in running backstays (runners). To make it work, the backstay is led through a block or fairlead along the deck to a two-legged, second order lever mounted with its fulcrum above deck
Harry Lever for St Kilda included the 1913 VFL Grand Final, and was the St. Kilda club record until it was broken by Ross Smith in 1972. Harry Lever Harold Lever (5 January 1886 – 19 July 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Lever played as a fullback in his 15-year VFL career which began in 1905. In 1907 he lost two fingers in a band saw accident but after attending to the wound himself, played for St Kilda the following afternoon. He did not play in 1916 or 1917 as