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2. Brace (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   A brace on a square-rigged ship is a rope (line) used to rotate a yard around the mast, to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind. Braces are always used in pairs, one at each end of a yard ( yardarm ), [ 1 ] termed port brace and starboard brace of a given yard or sail (e.g., the starboard main-brace is the brace fixed to the ...

3. Guy (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   The afterguy, working guy, or simply guy and sometimes known as a brace is attached to the windward clew of the spinnaker, and runs through the jaws on the outboard end of the pole and back to the cockpit. The afterguy is used to rotate the outboard end of the pole around the mast in order to optimize the sail's effectiveness, depending on the ...

4. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   1. To make a sail fill with wind on the opposite side normally used for sailing forward. A fore and aft headsail is backed by either not moving the sail across when tacking, or by hauling it to windward with the weather sheet. A square sail is backed by hauling the yards round with the braces. The sail is then aback. [3] 2.

5. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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   Either of the braces attached to the yard of the mainsail (the largest and lowest sail on the mainmast) on a square-rigged vessel. mainmast. Also simply main. 1. The tallest mast on a ship [1] with more than one mast, especially the tallest mast on a full-rigged ship. 2. On a ship with more than one mast, the second mast from the bow. mainmast head

6. Lazy jack - Wikipedia

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   Lazy jacks (or lazyjacks) are a type of rigging which can be applied to a fore-and-aft rigged sail to assist in sail handling during reefing and furling. [1] They consist of a network of cordage which is rigged to a point on the mast and to a series of points on either side of the boom ; these lines form a cradle which helps to guide the sail ...

7. Stays (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Stays are ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run fore-and-aft along the centerline from the masts to the hull, deck, bowsprit, or to other masts which serve to stabilize the masts. [ 1 ] A stay is part of the standing rigging and is used to hold a mast upright.

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9. Spanker (sail) - Wikipedia

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   The spanker is the fore-and-aft sail at the lower right. On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. [1] [2] [3] Spankers are also called driver, jigger, and pusher sail. [4] On a schooner of four or more masts, the spanker is the sail on the mast nearest the stern. [5]