halyard

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  • She walked by the marina, where the halyards jingled on the masts of the boats that were berthed there.

  • "Fly," he yelled and let the spinnaker halyard go.

  • A new set of scarves and banners were being bent onto halyards ready for hoisting.

  • The spar crashed down across the cabin top in a tangle of twisted stays and halyards.

  • Sail was added or clapped on from the physical act of hands being clapped around the halyards which were the ropes which hoisted the sail.

  • When sailing close to the wind, all that is needed is to ease the halyard.

  • While this is fast and easy, it will also make a mess of the halyards, boom hauling parrel, yard hauling parrel, and downhauls.

  • The head of the sail is attached to the spinnaker halyard, which is used to raise the sail.

  • Lines that raise sails are called "halyards" while those that strike them are called "downhauls".

  • Lines and halyards need to be coiled neatly for stowage and reuse.

  • After reeving the lanyard through the deadeyes, the end is hooked to a handy purchase in the rig above, such as the throat halyard.

  • The peak halyard, used to hoist the main sail, had disappeared.

  • In its most basic form, it requires only two lines, a halyard and a sheet, making it very simple to operate.

  • The running rigging which pulls up the junk sail are: the "halyard," whose purpose is to raise the junk sail up the mast.

  • The halyard, the line which raises the sail, is attached to the head.

  • To sweat the halyard is to take as much slack out of it as possible.

  • He was pinned under a broken mastbeam and thrashed about the face by a loose halyard, whose metal-capped end gouged out his eye.

  • The flames that lit our decks stood faithful sentinels over their halyards until they, like the ship, were entirely consumed.

  • The head (top corner) is attached to the spinnaker halyard, which is used to raise the sail up the mast.

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