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2. Standing rigging - Wikipedia

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   Standing rigging comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails. This term is used in contrast to running rigging , which represents the moveable elements of rigging which adjust the position and shape of the sails.

3. Rigging - Wikipedia

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   Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails. Standing rigging is the fixed rigging that supports masts including shrouds and stays. Running rigging is rigging which adjusts the position of the vessel's sails and spars including halyards, braces, sheets and ...

4. Stays (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   To miss stays is to fail in the attempt to go about; [4] if the vessel fails to go about, she is said to refuse stays. [3] In stays, or hove in stays, is the situation of a vessel when she is staying, or in the act of going about. [4] A vessel in bad trim, or lubberly-handled, is sure to be slack or loose in the stays: she may refuse stays ...

5. Clewlines and buntlines - Wikipedia

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   The clewlines are coloured green in the diagram, and run along the underside of the yard from the outboard ends to the mast, and then down to the deck. Buntlines lift the middle portion of the sail, or "bunt"; there will usually be four to eight buntlines across the foot of the sail.

6. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Rigging of a sailing frigate. A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. [1] Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. [2] A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square", or a combination of both. Within the fore-and-aft category there is a variety of triangular and quadrilateral sail ...

7. Category:Sailing rigs and rigging - Wikipedia

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   Types of rig (ie the configuration of masts and sails) used on sailing vessels and specific items of rigging used on sailing vessels, from full-rigged ships to sailboats Contents Top

8. Bobstay - Wikipedia

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   A bobstay is a part of the rigging of a sailing boat or ship. Its purpose is to counteract the upward tension on the bowsprit from the jibs and forestay . A bobstay may run directly from the stem to the bowsprit, [ 1 ] or it may run to a dolphin striker , a spar projecting downward, which is then held to the bowsprit or jibboom by a martingale ...

9. Shroud (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   On a sailing boat, the shrouds are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each side of the boat. Usually a shroud will connect at the top of the mast, and additional shrouds might connect partway down the mast, depending on the design of the boat.