. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. hoisted by both throat and peakhalyards and not by a single halyardas is sometimes the case. It is oftenmost convenient to be able to drop thepeak, when gybing, for instance, orwhen struck by a squall. A single top-ping lift should be fitted with an eyesplice to the end of the boom androve through a block at the mast-head and belayed to a cleat on the main sheet should travel on aniron horse. A short boomkin, with fore-stay and bob-stay, may help to securethe mast. The balance lug, which is illustratedin Fig. 8, is quite a popular rig, and itha
. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. hoisted by both throat and peakhalyards and not by a single halyardas is sometimes the case. It is oftenmost convenient to be able to drop thepeak, when gybing, for instance, orwhen struck by a squall. A single top-ping lift should be fitted with an eyesplice to the end of the boom androve through a block at the mast-head and belayed to a cleat on the main sheet should travel on aniron horse. A short boomkin, with fore-stay and bob-stay, may help to securethe mast. The balance lug, which is illustratedin Fig. 8, is quite a popular rig, and ithas much in its favor. The sail is lacedto a yard and boom and is hoisted by asingle halyard rove through a sheave-hole in the masthead and spliced to theeye of the hook of a galvanized-irontraveler, to which a strop on the yardis hooked, as shown in the the other end of the halyard a sin-gle block is turned in, through which arope is rove, the standing part of whichis made fast to an eyebolt at the foot 150 BOAT Balance Lug Rig. Pig. 8. Showing Traveler andHalyards. of the mast and the hauling part rovethrough a block and led aft within easyreach of the helmsman. The tack shouldbe made fast to the boom and set upto the mast thwart after being passedround the mast. The main sheet shouldwork on a galvanized-iron horse. Thisrig is quite handy and a boat soequipped is smart in stays. The sliding gunter rig, which is shownin Fig. 5, has this much to recommendit: it is easily set if rigged as shown inthe illustration and it can quickly bereefed. It will be seen that the mast is Combi7iation Rowing and Sailing Boasts. 151 in two pieces, the topmast sliding up anddown the lower mast on two wrought-iron rings or travelers. The halyardsare sometimes made fast to the lowertraveler and sometimes to the reeve through a sheave-hole in thelower masthead and may be set up witha single whip purchase. The lower mastmay be supported with a single wireshroud, on
Size: 1441px × 1734px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectsailing, bookyear1903
