The Misen-main-Mast and fore-Mast Shrowds * have at their lower ends Dead mens eyes seased into them, and are set up taut by Lanniers to the chains at the other end, over the heads of those Masts are Pendants, for Tackles and Swifters under them.
The Shrowds are great Ropes which go up either sides of all Masts. There are also double Blocks, that where there is use of much strength will purchase with much ease, but not so fast * as the other, and when we hale any Tackle or Haleyard to which two blocks do belong, when they meet, we call that * block and block. Blocks or Pullies are thick pieces of wood having shivers in them, which is a little wheel fixed in the midst with a Cock or Pin, some are brass, but the most of wood, whereon all the running Ropes do run, some are little, some great, with 3, 4, or 5 shivers in them, and are called by the names of the Ropes whereto they serve.
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Dead mens eyes are blocks, some small, some great, with many holes but no shivers the Crows-feet reeved through them are a many of small lines, sometimes 6, 8, or 10, but of small use more than for fashion to make the Ship shew full * of small Ropes. Shrowds, either to slacken them or set them taut also all the Stays have their blocks, and Dead mens eyes have Larniers. 7 Standing Lists for the Sprit-sail yard.35 The foretop Gallantsails Tye and Jeer.35 The main Topgallant Sails Tye and Jeers.32 The main Tye and fall of the Garnet.29 A Crowfoot from the Top to the Stay.26 The horse for the main Top-sail yard.Page A Description of a Ship with all her Tackling. Those Lanniers are many small Ropes reeved into the dead mens eyes of all The Misen stays do come to the main Mast, and the Misen Top-Mast Stays to the Shrowds with Crows feet: The use of those Stays are to keep the Masts * from falling aftwards, or too much forwards. The fore Masts and stays belonging to them in like manner are fastned to the Boult-spret, and Spretsail Top-Mast, and those Stays do help to stay the Boultspret. The main Top-gallant-Masts Stay in like manner to the head of the Fore-Top-Mast. The main Top-Mast Stay is fastned to the head of the Fore mast by a strop and a dead * mans eye. We say also, when they are too many or too great, she is over-rigged and doth much wrong a Ship in her sailing for a small weight aloft, is much more in that nature than a much greater below, and the more upright any Ship goeth, the better she saileth.Īll the Masts, Top-Masts, and Flag-staves have Stays, * excepting the Spret-sail Top-Mast the main-Mast Stay is made fast by a Lannier to a Coller, which is a great Rope that comes about the Head and Boult-spret, the other end to the head of the main-Mast.
THe Rigging a Ship, is all the Ropes or Cordage be∣longing * to the Masts and Yards and it is proper to say, The Mast is well rigged, or the Yard is well rig∣ged, that is, when all the Ropes are well sised to a true proportion of her burthen. How all the Tackling and Rigging of a Ship is made fast one to another, with their names, and the rea∣sons of their use.
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