The Rigger's Guide and Seaman's Assistant; Containing Practical Instructions for Rigging Ships, with Considerable Additions Relative to Wire Rigging, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...centre of the eye, and from the quarter mark towards the eye. Why should it be parcelled towards the eye? Because if it were parcelled from the eye towards the end, the wet might penetrate between the edges of the parcelling and have no way to escape; but if parcelled up, the wet cannot penetrate, as one part overlays the edge of the other. Put the parcelling on with the lay of the rope, and near the centre of the eye put it on thicker, or else in bending up the shroud to form the eye, the service and parcelling will open, which will allow the wet to get in. Give it a good coat of tar. Serve the shrouds with six-yarn spunyarn put it on against the lay of the rope. The foremast legs of Nos. i and 2 are served all the way down; all the other shrouds are wormed, parcelled, and served from quarter mark to quarter mark. The ninth pair is for two single shrouds; set it up and stretch it, and at twice and a-half the circumference of the rope from the centre mark, worm, parcel and serve it once the circumference of masthead and one-sixth, for the eyes, each side of the centre mark: then let it down and splice the eyes, and put the strands in once and a-half. After being spliced, lash the two eyes together, the bends being left in the ends; toggle them as before, set them up, marl the ends of the strands down, and serve over the splice. FORMING THE EYES IN SHROUDS. To form the eyes in shrouds, take one end of the shroud to the other, allow one end to be a little longer than the other for the after leg, according to the range of the dead eyes in the channels; break down the bight, pass three turns of a small rope round the two parts of the shroud, four feet from the back of the eye; set two men on the floor, each side, with their feet against the shroud, and haul on ...