Wooden Shipbuilding; A Comprehensive Manual for Wooden Shipbuilders to Which Is Added a Masting & Rigging Guide (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A After Sails.-- The sails on the masts that are abaft the foremast. After Yards.-- The yards on the masts which are abaft the foremast. Anchor.-- The implement that holds a floating vessel to the bottom by means of a connecting cable. It usually consists of a main shaft or shank, which has at one end diverging arms which terminate in flukes, and a stock of wood or iron at the other end at right angles to the shank and also to the plane of the arms. The shank projects above the stock and forms the head, in which is a ring or shackle. That part of the shank at the junction of the arms is called the crown. Arms.-- One of the projecting members of an anchor, ending in a fluke. An end of a yard. B Baby Jib Topsail.-- Yachts generally carry three sizes of jib topsails, viz., baby, working, and balloon. The baby jib topsail is as its name implies the smallest sail. Backbone.-- A rope that is stitched to the back of an awning and runs fore-and-aft. To this rope the crowfoot is spliced, by which the awning is triced up. Back Ropes.-- Ropes that lead from the dolphin striker on the lower end of the martingale to steady it and which set up on the bows. Backstay Stools.-- Small separate channels abaft the main channels used for setting up the standing backstays. Backstays.-- Ropes which are attached to all mastheads above the lower mastheads, and lead down to the vessel's sides for the purpose of steadying the masts. Bagpipe.-- The mizzen is said to be bagpiped when its sheet is brought to the weather mizzen rigging. Bag Reef.-- A name sometimes applied to the lower reef in the fore-and-aft sails and the upper reef in square topsails. Bale Band.-- A big shackle-shaped iron at the masthead, supported by the capband, and to which the standing part of the flying jib...