A running backstay is a rigging component on a sailboat which helps support the mast. A running backstay runs from each lateral corner of the stern to...

modern sailboats have a permanent backstay and some have a permanent backstay combined with running backstays. Backstays are not always found on all vessels...

Running rigging is the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering, shaping and controlling the sails on a sailing vessel—as opposed...

size and shape of the sail, a gaff rig will have running backstays rather than permanent backstays. The gaff enables a fore-and-aft sail to be four sided...

lines are countered in tension by backstays, which are secured along the sides of the vessel behind the shrouds. Running rigging is the cordage used to control...

rigged vessels have the following types of standing rigging: a forestay, a backstay, and upper and lower shrouds (side stays). Less common rigging configurations...

hydraulic ram) running diagonally between the boom and the lower portion of the mast. The kicker pulls the boom downwards. When the boat is running away from...

mast slightly further down by futtock shrouds. Contrast with forestay and backstay. Chainplate The Free Dictionary - Channel The Lore of Ships, ed. by Bengt...

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("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck...

English unit of measure "yard". Halyards, like most other parts of the running rigging, were classically made of natural fibre like manila or hemp. A...

allow the direction of the vessel to be changed relative to the wind. When running directly downwind the yards are 'squared' (pointing perpendicular to the...

galvanised wire or natural fibers on an older cutter or square-rigged ship. Backstay Shroud (sailing) Richard O. Claus; William B. Spillman; U.S. Air Force...

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stays are fore and aft. Those led aft towards the vessel's stern are backstays while those that lead forward towards the bow are forestays. "To stay"...

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Additional sails were also often mounted on traditional Bermudian craft, when running down wind, which included a spinnaker, with a spinnaker boom, and additional...

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device used on traditionally rigged sailing vessels to secure lines of running rigging. Largely replaced on most modern vessels by cleats, they are still...

position of the mast. A forward mast placement and a fixed (as opposed to running) bowsprit, but with two headsails may give categorisation as a sloop. An...

triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The settee can be considered to be an associated...

secondary in terms of canvas size, although large enough to require full running rigging. In late antiquity, the foremast lost most of its tilt, standing...

on the forestay running from the foremast head to the ship's peak, the foremost part of the hull, and the jibs set on stays running to the bowsprit....

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and sailing, jury rigging or jury-rigging is making temporary makeshift running repairs with only the tools and materials on board. It originates from...

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example a staysail hoisted to the top of the mizzen topgallant on a stay running to the top of the main topmast would be called the mizzen topgallant staysail...

colored. They may be designed to perform best as either a reaching or a running spinnaker, by the shaping of the panels and seams. They are attached at...

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secured to yards only at the head. Flemish flaked sheets The length of chain running diagonally up and right from the bottom-left of this picture to the upper...