And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sweating up the gaff’s peak halyard. He’s taking slack out by walking the lines; his weight tightens the ropes in the pulley network above him (often called the bridle). Notice that the lower of the 3 blocks is double sheaved; two lines run through the block. The lower right bunch of ropes and pulleys near where the mast and the gaff meet is the throat halyard.
I prefer a more simple rigging on a much smaller scale: Battened mailsail, single main halyard, boom vang, single mainsheet tied in to a traveler. Crew can run and trim the jib up front.
Sweating up the gaff’s peak halyard. He’s taking slack out by walking the lines; his weight tightens the ropes in the pulley network above him (often called the bridle). Notice that the lower of the 3 blocks is double sheaved; two lines run through the block. The lower right bunch of ropes and pulleys near where the mast and the gaff meet is the throat halyard.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a rather large sail. What ship is this?
Thank you, Drew. Very interesting information.
Deletereminds me of the great gaff racing sloops of eld.
ReplyDeleteNope. Nagonah do it.
ReplyDeleteI prefer a more simple rigging on a much smaller scale: Battened mailsail, single main halyard, boom vang, single mainsheet tied in to a traveler. Crew can run and trim the jib up front.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is this one:
ReplyDeletehttps://classicsailboats.org/n-g-herreshoff-elena-of-london/
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Sacrificial swab on a J boat?
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