RIGGING. 



Lower Yards. — The lower yards muft firft be gotten on 

 board thus : the hawfer that hove up the topmaft is made 

 fall round the yard with a round turn and two half-hitches, 

 fecurely itopt with fpun-yarn along the yard in feveral places, 

 and well itopt at the upper arm. As the yard is hove on 

 board, the (lops are cut, and the runner-tackle of the oppofite 

 fide is brought on to the quarter of the yard, to aflift it in 

 lowering as the yard advances on board beyond the flings. 

 They are laid athwartfhips before their refpe&ive mails, 

 but the fore-yard muit be kept above the main-flay by the 

 runners, which are made fad round each quarter of the yard. 

 They are then rigged as follows. 



Horfes, I, 2, 3, {Plate III. fg. 2.) have an eye fpliced 

 in one end to the circumference of the yard-arm, and ferved 

 with fpur.-yarn over the fpliee. The eye goes over the yard- 

 arm, 1, and (tops againil the cleats, and the other end reeves 

 through the thimble in the lower end of the ilirrups, 2, 

 which are from three to four in number; the inner end of the 

 horfes then have a thimble turned in, with a throat and round 

 feizing, through which they are lafhed to the yard, juft be- 

 yond the fling-cleats on the oppofite fide. The itirrups, 3, 

 {Plate 11. fg. 17.) have their upper ends opened and plaited, 

 and are fattened to the yard at equal diilances with three 

 round turns, and nailed, fo as that the horfes may hang tuf- 

 pended about three feet below the yard. 



Yard-tackle-pendants, 4, 5, 6, 7, ( Plate III. fg. 2.) have 

 an eye fplicefl in one end the fize of the yard-arm, 4, and 

 a double block in the other end, 5, and the fplices ferved 

 over with fpun-yarn in the houfe. The eye is put over the 

 yard-arm next the horfes, and the double block is connected 

 by its fall to a fingle block {trapped with a hook and 

 thimble, 6, Plate II. Jig. 17. 



Brace-pendants, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, (Plate III. fg. 2.) 

 have an eye fpliced in one end, as in the former, and a fingle 

 block in the lower end, and the fplices ferved over with 

 fpun-yarn in the houfe. They, like the former, are next put 

 over the yard-arm, 7, and the brace reeved through the 

 fingle block, 8, (Plate 11. jig. 17.) Sometimes in the 

 navy, but mollly in merchant-lhips, the block is lathed clofe 

 up to the yard, without a pendant. Fore-braces have their 

 ftanding-part made fail round the collar of the main- {lay, on 

 each fide, with a hitch, and the end feized. The leading-part 

 reeves through a fingle block, lafhed on each fide the main- 

 ilay-collar, clofe up to the rigging, and leads down and pafles 

 through a (heave in the brace-bitts, at the fore part of the 

 quarter-deck. The main-braces have their (landing part 

 made fafl with a clinch round an eye-bolt in the upper part 

 of the quarter-piece : the leading-part reeves through a fixed 

 block clofe aft upon the plank-iheer, or a block lafhed to an 

 iron flay projecting on the fide, and leads in and belays round 

 a cleat on the infide. The Handing and leading-parts of the 

 main-brace are led aft through a thimble fpliced in the end 

 of ajpan with two legs, which is made fad with a half-hitch 

 round the mizen-lhrouds on each fide. 



Preventer-braces to the fore-yard, in war, reeve through a 

 block lafhed round the yard-arm, 9, (Plate 11. jig. 17.) 

 and through a block in a fpan, hitched round the bowlprit- 

 cap ; they lead in upon the forecaftle, and the ftanding-part 

 makes fail round the cap. Thofe to the main-yard reeve 

 through the block on the yard-arm, then through a block 

 lafhed to the fore-fhrouds, clofe below the cat-harpins, lead 

 down upon the forecaftle, and the ftanding-part makes fafl to 

 the fhrouds above the block with a hitch, and the end is feized. 

 Topfail-Jleet-blocks are next put over the yard-arms, 8, 9, 

 10, II, (Plate 111. jig. 2.), ilrapt with an eye to the fize 

 cf the yard-arm, io, Plate 11. jig . 17. 



Lift-blocks are then fpliced into the flraps of the topfail- 

 fheet-blocks, 11, (Plate 11. fig. 17.) ; the lifts, 12, 13, 14, 



15, 16, 17, (Plate III. jig. 2.) reeve through a block in a 

 fpan, hitched round the malt -head, between that and the top- 

 maft, then lead down abreall the fhrouds, and reeve througli 

 a block faflened to the fide, and there belay. 



Quarter-blocks, 18, 19, (Plate III. jig. 2.) are ftrapt with 

 a long and (hort leg, with a la(hing-eye fpliced in each end, 

 through which they la(h round the middle of the yard, within 

 the cleats, the block hanging downwards, 11, Plate II. 



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The quarter-block is a double block, with a thick and thin 

 fheave running on the fame pin, through which reeve the top- 

 fail-lheets, and the thin fheave is intended for the clue-lines ; 

 but a fingle block, in lieu of them, is recommended, as they 

 would lead fairer and work eafier. Large merchant- drips 

 have a fingle block lafhed on each fide of the middle of the 

 yard, and the fheets reeve on their refpeftive fides, and lead 

 down by the fides of the mad. Smaller (hips have a double 

 block lafhed in the middle of the yard, as the quarter-block, 

 through which the fheets reeve, and lead down on oppofite 

 fides. 1 



Cluegarnet-blocis, 12, (Plate II. jig. 17.) lafh through the 

 eyes upon the yard, the blocks to hang downwards, four feet 

 without the fling-cleats, on each fide. 



Leech -line-blocks, 13, (Plate 11- fg. 17.) are hflied through 

 the eye and round the yard, ten feet within the cleats at 

 each yard-arm. The blocks to hang on the fore-fide of the 

 yard. 



Bunt-line-blocks, 14, [Plate II. fg. 17.) are ladled, like the 

 former, midway between them and the flings. 



Slab-line-blocks, 15, (Plate II. fg. 17.) are ftrapt with a 

 lhort lafhing-eye, and are feized to the fpan of the quarter- 

 blocks underneath the yard. 



Tricing-blocks, 16, (Plate 11. fg. 17.) for the yard tackles 

 are ftrapt as the above, and are feized round the yard about 

 one-third the length within the arm-cleats. The blocks to 

 hang under the yard. 



The inner tricing-line, 20, (Plate III. fg. 2.) reeves 

 through a block lalhed to the futtock-dave, has a long-eye 

 fpliced in the outer end, the bight is put over the hook oi 

 the fingle block with a couple of turns, 17, (Plate II. 

 fg. 17.), and the leading-part belays to the (hrouds. At 

 fea it is looked to a becket, or drap, round the futtock~ 

 itaff. The outer tricing-line, 21, (Platelll.fg. 2.) is fpliced 

 round the ftrap of the yard-tackle-block, 18, (Plate 11. 

 fg. 17.), and reeved through a block on the yard, it then 

 reeves through a block lalhed in the fhrouds near the fut- 

 tock-ftafl", and leads down upon deck. 



Jeers, in large fhips, are two large tackles, 22, 23, 

 (Plate III. fg. 2.1 The blocks at the malt head are hove 

 up clofe on each fide by the top-burton-tackles, and io ladled, 

 that every turn of the lafhmg is alternately palicd through 

 the drap of the block (Plate II. fg. 11.), and over a broad 

 elm-cleat, nailed on the oppofite fide of the mad-head, and 

 the ends of the lafhing are well Itopt. The other two 

 blocks are ftrapt with a dauble ftrap to the fize of the yard, 

 with a long and fhort leg (Plate II. fg. 10.) s See Strap- 

 ping oj Blacks, below.) They lafh on each lid : tiie middle, 

 or flings, within the cleats, 19, 20, (Plate 11-fg. i '■) The 

 long leg of the drap is palled down the aftiide of the yard, 

 and meets the bight of the lhort leg on the forefide, and 

 ladies, every turn paffing alternately through each bight, rofe- 

 falhion. The falls reeve through the blocks at the mall- 

 head and on the yard, and lead down upon deck. Jeers, in 

 merchant-diips, and fmall ihips in tiie navy, have two fingle 

 blocks lafhed on each fide the mall-head, as above, and an- 

 other, the fame fize, in the middle of the yard. The tye then 

 reeves through one of the blocks at the mad head, then 

 through the block on the yard, and then through the block 



