The art of sail-making1843 |
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after-leech bolt bolt-rope boom BOWLINE-CRINGLES bowsprit breadth of cloth bunt buntline-cloths CANVAS Contained cleats cloths are gored Clue-Pieces clue-rope CLUES are described cringles cross-stitches cut square East India Ships extended feet find the quantity Flying-Jib foot is gored Foot-Band Middle foot-gores Fore-Course fore-mast fore-sail Fore-Top-Gallant foreign-made sail-cloth gaff gives the length gored cloths grommets GUNS half a breadth half a yard head and foot Head or Stay HEAD-HOLES hoist holes inches broad inches of SLACK-CLOTH inches per cloth India Ships instructions leech Leech-Linings Buntlings Gores Main-Course main-sail Main-Top-Gallant marled MARLING-HOLES mast mast-leech merchant-service Mizen Mizen-Course Mizen-Top nock number of cloths quantity of canvas reef reef-band REEF-CRINGLE REEF-HANKS refer to Rule rope royal navy sail is quadrilateral sail is triangular sail-maker sewed ship's length Sloops Sorts of Canvas spliced sprit-sail square cloths stamped Stay-Sails stitches stuck Studding-Sails tack and peek three inches Top-Lining Top-Gallant-Sail Royal Top-Sail Try-Sail yard in length yarn
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Página 147 - ... be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals of such Justice or Justices...
Página 6 - LACING. The rope or line used to confine the heads of sails to their yards or gaffs.
Página 14 - ... upper edge is called the head ; the sides or skirts are called leeches ; and the bottom or lower edge is termed the foot: if the head is parallel to the foot, the two lower corners are denominated clews, and the upper corners earings.
Página 47 - The shell consists of a single piece, and is hence said to be univalve. In the limpet (Patella) it has the form of a hollow cone ; but in most cases it consists of a long tube, open at one end, and tapering to a point at the other. This tube is...
Página 17 - Sails cut square on the head and foot, with gores only on the leeches, as some topsails are, the cloths on the head between the leeches are cut square to the depth ; and the gores on the leeches are found by dividing the depth of the sail by the number of cloths gored, which gives the length of each gore. The gore is set down from a square with the opposite selvage, and the canvas, being cut diagonally, the...
Página 19 - Sails that have bonnets are cut out the whole depth of the sail and bonnet included, allowing enough for the tablings on the foot of the sail and head and foot of the bonnet. The bonnet is cut off after the sail is sewed together. If a drabler is required, it is allowed for in the cutting out the same as the bonnet.
Página 28 - Reef and reef-tackle pendant cringles are stuck through holes made in the tablings, and the lower ends are put through the bolt-rope once more than the upper ends, being more liable to be drawn out.
Página 149 - One Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same.