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43. Hoops and hanks. 

 Mast-hoop. 



Made of wood, and used to hold the sail to the mast. Gift of 

 Walter Coleman & Sons. 25,807. 



Mast-hoop. 



Wood, usually of hickory or white oak ; ends bolted. Diameter, 25 

 inches ; thickness, 1£ inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1883. 57,815. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. This is the size of mast-hoop used on 

 schooners of 75 or 80 tons. They slide up and down the masts, 

 the luff of the sails being bent to the hoops. 



Mast-hoops. 



Made of galvanized iron. Series of sixteen sizes, 3 to 10 inches 

 diameter. Used on small sailboats in shore fisheries. Middle- 

 town, Conn. 25,159. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co. 



BlDING-SAIL HOOP WITH BECKET ATTACHMENT. 



Ordinary hickory mast-hoop with about one-third sawed out, leav- 

 ing two ends separated about 17 inches. Iron hook fastened 

 to each end of the hoop. Piece of luff of sail with becketj 

 thimbles in ends of beckets. Diameter of hoop, 25 inches; 

 wdith between hoops, 15f inches ; length of becket ends, 1 foot. 

 Gloucester, Mass., 1883. U. S. Fish Commission. Used for 

 attaching riding sail to mainmast. 



4ld just able jib -hank. (Clements' patent.) 



Made of galvanized iron. Three sizes. Used for single stays. 

 Middletown, Conn. 25,214. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co. 



Adjustable jib-hank. (Clements' patent.) 



Made of galvanized iron. Two samples. Self-adjusting. Used 

 for double stays. Middletown, Conn. 25,215. Wilcox, Crit- 

 tenden & Co. 



Jib-hanks. 



For single stays. Made of galvanized iron. Series of thirteen 

 sizes. This style of hank, half-round, was used from 1864 to 

 1875, but not now made. Middletown, Conn. 25,156. Wil- 

 cox, Crittenden & Co. 



Jib-hank. (Pratt's patent.) 



Made of galvanized iron.; two sizes. Used chiefly on yachts to ship 

 and unship the jib easily and quickly. The hank is strung on 

 the stay the same as the common jib-hank; the eye is seized 

 on the luff-rope of the jib and hooked to the hanks whenever 

 needed. Middletown, Conn. 25,158. Wilcox, Crittenden & 

 Co. 



