The rigger's guide1874 |
Términos y frases comunes
a-half the round abaft allow backstays bight boom bowline bowsprit cable capstan centre channels clewline clump block crosstrees dead eye deck double block downhauls eye bolt eye spliced fathoms feet fitted Flemish eyes foot ropes fore and main FORE STAY foremast Fthm gaff girtline grommet guys half half hitch halliards hawser heart heave hitch hook hounds to heel inches inner collar jack stay jib-boom knot lanyard lash Length from eye Length of rope Length to cut Length to marry marry the strap martingale mast mast-head mizen once and a-half once the round pendant port reef reeve riding turns rigging rope required rove seizing sennit shackle sheave hole sheet ship side single block spar spritsail spunyarn starboard strap round studding sail studding-sail tack tackle Take once Take twice thimble toggle top-gallant topmast topsail topsail yard twice the round unlay whipping wire yard-arm yarn
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Página 215 - ... from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.
Página 215 - A STEAMER always gives way to a sailing vessel, and it must be remembered that every vessel under sail, with steam ready, though not using it, is considered a steamer in the event of collision. EVERY VESSEL UNDERWEIGH is to carry a green light on...
Página 9 - A BOWLINE KNOT. Take the end of the rope in your right hand, and the standing part in the left — lay the end over the standing part, then with your left hand turn the bight of the standing part over the end part, so as to form a...
Página 20 - TO WALL AND CROWN. Unlay the end of a rope, and with the three strands form a wall knot, by taking the first strand and forming a bight ; take the next strand, and bring it round the end of the first, the third strand round the second, and up through the bight of the first — this is a wall.
Página 232 - Lightning/ an officer of very large and varied experience, and well known to be one of the best practical surveyors in the Royal Navy. The treatise is simple and clear in arrangement, and written with the especial object of instructing the officers of the naval service in general, and only deals with the use of such instruments as are found on board of every man-of-war. We have never met with any treatise on nautical surveying by any means so well calculated to answer the purpose for which it was...
Página 24 - A harbor gasket is made with foxes, something similar to the common sea gasket, — but instead of taking the outside fox over all the rest, and bringing it into the middle, you interweave it between them by taking the outside fox of both sides, and taking it over one and under the other, working it towards the middle, the same as common sennit.
Página 24 - ... necessary. When you have got it a. sufficient length, diminish by dropping a fox at proper intervals ; to finish it, lay one end up, leaving its bight down ; plait the others through this bight until they are all worked through it, then haul on the end till the bight is taut, to secure all parts ; cut the ends off, whip it, and it is complete.
Página 14 - ... and fill up the space which it leaves with the opposite strand next to it ; then turn the rope round and lay hold of the two next strands that will come opposite their respective lays, unlay one and fill up with the other as before ; then cut off the long strands, and it will appear as in the Plate.
Página 23 - With the strands opened out again, follow the lead of the single knot through two single bights, the ends coming out at the top of the knot, and lead the last strand through two douUe bights.
Página 15 - ... fill up the vacant lay ; then you stick the ends twice under two strands with all six o*f the half strands, leaving the other six neutral ; then stretch the splice well before you cut the ends off, and it is finished. 24.— EYE-SPLICE. An eye-splice is made by opening the end of a rope, and laying the strands at any distance upon the standing part of the rope, according to the size of the eye-splice...