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Young Sailor's Assistant in Practical Seamanship; Including the Rules of the Road; Directions for Resuscitating the Apparently Drowned, Etc., Etc., Together with the Salutes ... Naval Signal Flags, Very's Lights, and the International Code of Signa

Young Sailor's Assistant in Practical Seamanship; Including the Rules of the Road; Directions for Resuscitating the Apparently Drowned, Etc., Etc., Together with the Salutes ... Naval Signal Flags, Very's Lights, and the International Code of Signa


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...belay? They are belayed to their respective pin-rails, both sides, (fore and main clew-jiggers are used for whips.) Reeve the fore? They are fitted as pendants. A thimble is turned in one end, the other ends are rove down through blocks on the fore yard-arms, and hook to the reef-tackle cringle in the leeches of the sail. The fore clew-jiggers are used for the whips, the lower block of which hooks to the thimbles in the upper ends of the reef-pendants. The main are rove the same. Substitute main for fore. Where do the fore buntlines belay? Usually at the forecastle pin-rail (on both sides.) They lead aft. Reeve them? The upper and outer legs toggle to the outer buntline toggles on the foot of the sail, then up to the blocks under the forward part of the fore top, down through the upper sheaves of the fiddle-blocks, back to the blocks under the top, and down to the inner buntline toggle on the sail. The lower legs reeve through the leaders in the forecastle pin-rail, to blocks on the bowsprit, up to the lower sheaves of the fiddleblocks, and the standing part is seized to the fore stay. In steamers they are up and down the mast, which is neater and better. Where do the fore and main leech-lines belay? At the forward part of their respective pin-rails, both sides. Reeve the fore? There are two of them, the inner and outer leech-line; they reeve up through fairleaders on the lower rigging and double blocks under the top, to single blocks seized to the jackstay on the quarters of the yard, down, and are clinched to the leeches of the sail. The main are rove the same. Substitute main for fore. Where do the fore and main clew-jiggers belay? At their respective pin-rails, both sides. Reeve the fore? They lead up through fairleaders in the fore rigging, to blocks h...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781130100730
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 102
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130100731
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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