Card/Transcription No.: 336-2

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SHIP NO. 336 - RIGGING, CONT.

(Yard Braces (F), cont.) trim the yard around fore and aft,
and has been made fast to the starboard end of the steering
oar rest.
Sail Lacing (G), exists on yard only.
Stops (H), around furled sail, clewing it up to the yard.
A heavy loop around the yard and boom (H') probably holds the
yard fast to the boom, after the former has been lowered.
BOOM: (Lower Spar). Spliced like yard (J).
Slings (K) (Carrying whole weight of boom, and when sail is
lowered, the whole weight of the boom, sail, and yard, since
no yard slings exist.)
Four ropes on each side; first is made fast to the boom end,
passed through the top dead-eye in cleat on mast, and brought
down again to the middle point of the boom arm; the next is
made fast inside the first and passed through the second dead-eye, and so on. In making fast to boom, each sling end is
given two or three round turns about the boom, and a half-hitch on the standing part.  This knot being easily undone,
the slings can always be kept at an even tension without great
trouble.