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
Caitlin Lever 2008 Summer Olympics. From 2008 to 2011, Lever played for the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch. She currently resides in Buffalo, New York. Her father is former NHL player Don Lever. Her uncle another former NHLer, Rick Ley. Caitlin Lever Caitlin Anne Lever (born March 12, 1985) is an American-Canadian softball outfielder. Lever was born in Morristown, New Jersey, when her father Don Lever played for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). Due to her birth in the US, Lever is a dual citizen of the US and Canada. In her youth, she played ice