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Tack, 1 17. is fet tight with a luff-tackle, that hooks to 

 the cringle in the tack of the fail, and to an eye-bolt in the 

 throat of the boom. 



Downhauler, 118, reeves through a block made fad to 

 the middle of the driver-yard, and leads down to the 

 taffarel. 



Rigging of Snows, Brigs, &c. 



A Snow has her fails and rigging on the fore and main- 

 maft, fimilar to, thofe on the fame maft in a (hip. The 

 braces of the yards on the main-mail lead forward. The 

 tryfail abaft the main-maft bends to the tryfail-maft, fimilar 

 to the mizen of a fhip. 



Veffels in the navy refembling fnows have a rope-horfe, 

 that fets up abaft the main-mail, with dead-eyes and a laniard, 

 to an eye-bolt in the deck, to which the tryfail is bent by 

 hanks and feizings, fimilar to the tryfail of a fnow. 



Brigs.— The rigging of a brig differs little from the fore 

 and main-maft of a (hip ; the braces of yards 01: the main- 

 maft lead forward. The after-main-fhroud is ferved from 

 the maft-head to the dead-eye, to prevent its being chafed by 

 the main-boom and gaff. The after -backftay is fitted with a 

 tackle, that it may be flackened when the main-fail jibes, or. 

 is bowfed forward by the boom-pendant and tackle. 



Boo.m-topping-lift is taken up on the itarboard fide, and 

 reeved through an iron-bound block, hooked to the upper 

 eye-bolt on the aftfide of the main-maft-head, then leads 

 down and reeves through a block at the after-end of the 

 boom. The ftanditig-part clinches round the maft-head, or 

 hooks to an eye-bolt near the block ; the leading-part comes 

 down and has a double block fpliced or turned in, that con- 

 nects by its fall to a fingle block that hooks to an eye-bolt in 

 the after-part of the channel. Sometimes it has the addition 

 of a runner. 



Mainfheet reeves through a double block, ftrapped 

 round the boom within the taffarel, and through another 

 double block, ftrapped round the horfe inlide the taffarel, 

 and belays to a large cleat, or the pin in the (heet -block of 

 fmall veffels. Large veffels fometimes have a treble block 

 on the horfe. 



Tack-tackle has the double block fattened to the tack of 

 the fail, and connects with its fall to a fingle block hooked 

 to an eye-bolt in the deck. 



Guy-pendants have a hook and thimble, that hook in a 

 thimble of a (trap on the boom, juft without the main-fheet- 

 block. In the inner end of the pendant, is a thimble or 

 long-eye fpliced, to which is hooked a luff-tackle, which is 

 hooked to an eye-bolt in the fide before the maft, and the 

 fall leads in-board. 



Gaff-topping-lift rigs fimilar to the boom above, only 

 it has a fpan iipon the gaff, and the block at the maft-head 

 hooks to the eye-bolt, next below the boom-topping-lift ; 

 and the 



Haliard connefts it to an eye-bolt in the deck or fide, the 

 fame as the boom. 



Inner tye is fimilar to the above, and hooks to an eye- 

 bolt in the jaws of the gaff, then reeves through an iron- 

 bound block, that hooks to an eye-bolt in the maft-head 

 below the above. It has a double block fpliced or turned in 

 to the lower end, and fets up by the haliards, the lower 

 block hooking to an eye-bolt on the oppofite fide to the tye 

 above. 



Peek downhauler reeves through a fmall block, ftrapped 

 with a thimble to the eye-bolt at the outer end of the gaff, 

 and belays round a cleat mjder the boom. 



Tkroal-downhauler reeves through a block at the nock of 

 the fail, and leads down the aftfide of the maft. 



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Main-sail bends at the head to the gaff with lacing 

 and earings, and is feized to the hoops round the maft, 

 through the holes in the fore-leech. 



Throat -dowr.hauler. — The double block hooks to an eye- 

 bolt under the throat of the gaff, that conne&s by its fall to 

 a fingle block hooked to the thimble, feized in the bight of 

 a ttrap round the malt under the boom-faddle. 



Sheet-rope fplices in the clue of the fail, and reeves through 

 a (heave -hole in the boom ; and a thimble is turned in to the 

 inner end, to which hooks the fheet or luff-tackle, and the 

 inner block to a ftrap round the boom near the jaws. When 

 the fail is hove out, it is lathed with an earing through the 

 clue, and an eye-bolt in the boom-end. 



Tricing-line reeves through a fmall block made faft to an 

 eye-bolt in the throat of the gaff ; one end fplices to the tack 

 of the fail, the other end leads down upon deck, and belays 

 to a cleat on the maft. 



Rigging of Cutters or Veffels with one Ma/}. 



The different articles before the maft rig fimilar to (hips, 

 and the fhrouds, boom, &c. as the brigs. 



Gaff-topsail laces to a fmall gaff at the head. 



Haliards reeve through a iheave-holeat the top-gallant -maft- 

 head, and bend to the inner quarter of the gaff; the leading- 

 part comes down upon deck. 



Topping-lift reeves through a (heave-hole, or fmall block, 

 feized to the top-gallant-head, then through a thimble or 

 fmall block feized at the outer end of the gaff ; the ftand- 

 ing-part clinches round the top-gallant-maft-head above 

 the (heave-hole, and the leading-part comes down upon 

 deck. 



Sheet reeves through a thimble feized at the peek of the 

 main-fail, and bends to the clue of the fail, and leads down 

 upon deck. 



Tack makes faft to the tack of the fail, a little above the 

 rigging. 



Saveall topfail. — The clues lafh near the lift -block of the 

 crofs-jack-yard. 



Haliards bend to the earings of the fail, and reeve 

 through a block on each quarter of the topfail-yard, and 

 lead down upon deck. 



Ringtail-sail bends to a fmall yard on the head, and 

 is hoiited by the peek downhauler, abaft the main-fail. The 

 foot is expanded on a fmall boom, or fpar, lafhed to the 

 outer end of the main-boom. 



Water-sail bends on the head to a fmall yard. 



Haliards reeve through a fmall block laftied under the 

 outer end of the main-boom, and make faft to the middle of 

 the yard, and the leading-part belays round a cleat on the 

 taffarel. 



Sheets make faft to the clues of the fail, and lead in over 

 the quarters. 



Mizen is fet on a fmall maft over the Item. If a 

 fquare-fail, it bends to a yard at the head, and is hoiited by 

 a haliard reeved through a (heave-hole at its maft-head, and 

 is fprcad by Jheets at the foot. If a fpritfail, its fore-leech 

 bends to the malt with grommets, and is fpread or peeked 

 with a fprit, and the foot hauls aft by the Iheet to a fmall 

 boom. 



Rigging, Serving the. See Rigging. 



RIGHT, ReCTBM, in Logic and Ethics. 



In this ienfe the word ltands oppofed to wrong, erroneous, 

 falfe, &c. 



Right, in Geometry, fomething that lies evenly, without 

 incl'ining or bending one way or another. 



Thus, a ri^ht line is that whofe feveral points all tend the 

 fame way, or which lies evenly between its extremes. 



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