RIGGING. 



laihed through thofe eyes round the yard three feet without 

 the flings, the ladling to be upon the yard. 



TheJ^ra/has a thimble feized in the bight, and is fpliced 

 or feized round the yard in the middle, between the cleats. 

 Alfo on each quarter of the yard is feized a ftrap, with a 

 thimble, through which arc led the jib-guys. The yard may 

 now be hove out towards its place, and the long-tackle block 

 of the haliards hooked into an eye-bolt in the after-part of 

 the bottom of the bowfprit-cap ; the hook to be m'oufed with 

 fpun-yarn, to prevent its flipping loofe. The fmgle block is 

 hooked to the thimble in the itrap at the flings, and the fall 

 then leading in upon the forecaftle, the yard is hove to its 

 place. 



The fling s have an eye fpliced in each end, one of which goes 

 round the yard clofe within the cleats near the middle, and 

 feizes with a quarter-feizing clofe to the yard ; the other end 

 goes over the bowfprit before the faddle, and under the 

 yard, then over the bowfprit again, till the eyes in the ends, 

 meeting clofe together, are well laflied. 



Preventer-flings are ufed when the haliards are taken in. 

 The outer end has a hook and thimble fpliced in and ferved 

 down over the fplice, that hooks to the eye-bolt in the bottom 

 of the cap. The inner end reeves through the thimble in 

 the ftrap at the flings, and is hitched with two half-hitches, 

 or fpliced. 



The fpritfail-topfail-yard is hove on board, &c. as the 

 former, and the 



Horfes, having an eye in their outer ends, are put over the 

 yard-arm on each fide, and flop againft the cleats ; the inner 

 end has an eye, which is feized to the yard, three feet without 

 the flings, 58, Plate III. fig. 2. 



The braces have an eye lpliced in one end, that goes over 

 the yard-arm on each fide ; the inner ends lead through a 

 block made fall to the under fide of the fore-top, from 

 thence through another at the aftfide under the top, and lead 

 down to the aft-part of the forecaftle, and there belay ; 59, 

 Plate III. fig. 2. 



The lifts have an eye fpliced in their outer ends, and are 

 driven over the yard-arm clofe to the braces ; the inner end 

 reeves through a thimble, feized on each fide a ftrap hitched 

 over the end of the jib-boom, and leads in upon the forecaftle 

 through a faddle on the bowfprit, and belays to the rack 

 over the bowfprit, 60, Plate III. fig. 2. 



The clue-line-blochs are ttrapped with two eyes, and are 

 lafhed through thofe eyes round the yard, about two feet 

 without the flings. 



Haliard. — The ftanding-part is made faft with a bend 

 through the becket of its block, laflied under the outer end 

 of the jib-boom ; then reeves through a fingle block, laflied 

 round the middle of the yard between the cleats ; then for- 

 ward, and reeves through the block at the outer end of the 

 jib-boom, and leads in upon the forccaltle, and belays to a 

 rack over the bowfprit, 61, Plate III. fig. 2. 



Top-gallant Majls. — The top-rope reeves for the top-gallant- 

 malt as it does for the topmait, obferving to (top it to the 

 tup-gallant- mail -head with fpun-yarn, to keep it Heady till 

 it has entered the topmait -cap ; the flop is then cut, and 

 the end of the top-rope made fall to the eye-bolt in the 

 topmall-cap. 



A grommet of rope, fpliced to the fr/.e of the mail, 

 put over the head, and beat down clofe to the itop of the 

 hounds. 



Shrouds, back/lays, and Jiays, are fitted in the houfe, 

 and hoiited over the top-gaUant-malt-head, the fame .<■ the 

 topmafts, and the top-gallant-malt is then luayed up and 

 Added. 



The Jhrouds are then thrufl tlirough a hole in the cud of 



the topmait crofs-trces, and between the topmait fhrouds, 

 over the futtock-ltafT. A thimble is feized in the ends that 

 fet up with the laniard through a thimble feized in the 

 bight of a ftrap, made faft round the futtock-plates, clofe 

 under the dead-eyes, with a turn through the bight, 58, 

 59, 60, Plate III. fig. I. 



Backfiays fet up, the fame as the topmait -backftays, to 

 a fmall dead-eye in the aft-part of the channel, or in a flool 

 abaft the channel, 61, 62, 63, Plate III.^. 1. 



Fore-top-gallani-Jlay,f>\, (Plate III. fig. I.) reeves through 

 a fingle block in large fliips, or a thimble in the ftrap at 

 the outer end of the jib-boom of frigates and fmaller veffels. 

 The former fets up by its tackle to an eye-bolt 111 the 

 head ; the latter with a jigger-tackle occasionally, and is 

 fecured by a laniard to the gammoning or eye-bolt in the 

 head. 



Mam-top-gallant -Jhiy, 65, (Plate III. fig. 1.) is cable -laid 

 in large fliips, and fitted with a collar and moufed, as the 

 lower ftays. Smaller fliips are hawfer-laid, have an eye 

 fpliced in the upper end to the circumference of the mail- 

 head, and ferved with fpun-yarn over the fplice, in the 

 houfe. It reeves through a fingle block at the fore-top- 

 maft-head, has a thimble turned into the end of the ftay, 

 and fets up to a thimble in a ipan, made faft to the 

 treltle-trecs of the foremalt by its laniard. 



Stayfail-Jlay, 1, (Plate IV '. fig. I.) is fpliced into the 

 top-gallant-flay, one fathom below the top of the mall, it 

 then reeves through a block or thimble lafhed to the fore- 

 top-maft-head, takes a turn round thetreftle-trees, and belays 

 there. 



Mizen-top-gallant-fiay, 66, (Plate III. fig. I.) fets up to 

 the main-topmaft-head, as the niain-top-gallant-ftay fets up 

 to the fore-topmaft-head. 



Flag-fiajf-fiays go round their refpeftive top-gallant or 

 royal maft-heads with a running-eye, and are kept clofe up 

 under the truck, by a fmall cleat nailed on each fide. The 

 fore one reeves th/ough a thimble- at the jib-boom end, and 

 belays round the fore-ftay-collar. The main one reeves 

 through a thimble above the fore-top-gallant rigging, and 

 belays in the top. The mizen one the fame above the main- 

 top-gallant rigging. 



Royal mads are rigged as top-gallant-mafls, and often 

 abaft the maft. 



The top-gallant-yards are hove on board, and rig with 

 horfes, braces, and lifts, over the yard-arm, the fame as the 

 toplail-yards. % 



Braces, I, (Plate 11. fig. 19.) The fore -top-gallant-braces, 

 56, (Plate III. fig. 2.) reeve through the block in the 

 pendant of large fliips, or the block in the yard-arm of fmall. 

 The ftanding-part makes fall with a hitch, and the enel 

 lei/.cd back round the collar of the main-topmaft-ftay on 

 each fide ; and the leading-part reeves through a block 

 lafhed round the collar a little below the llanding-part ; 

 then leads through a block at the aft-part of the fore-top, 

 and belays to a pin at the aftfide of the forecaftle. 



The main-top-gallant-braces, 57, (Plate III. fig. 2.) 

 reeve as the former. The Handing-part makes fait with a 

 hitch, and the end feized back round the collar of the 

 mizcn-tupmait-ltay, and the leading-part through a block 

 I '■!/ id juft below the ftanding-part, and had:, down into the 

 mizen-flirouds. 



The mizen-lop gal/ant-braces, 58, (Plat, 111. fig, 2.) are 

 fingle, and go with a fplice nvir the yard-. inn. They lead 



ugh a thimble at 1 he mizi n-peek, come down, and belay 

 fore-fide of the taffrail. 



The lifts, 59, 60, 61, (PLu. III. fig. 1.) are fingle, and 

 go over the yard-arm with an eye; the other end ra 



tlirough 



