Running rigging is the term for the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering and controlling the sails - as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and other spars. The running rigging includes halyards and sheets. Some types of running rigging include: - halyards, which are used to raise sails. - downhauls, which lower a sail or a yard, and can be used to adjust the tension on the luff of a sail - Cunninghams, which tighten the luff of a sail - Guys, which control spinnakers - Topping lifts, which hold up booms or yards - Barber hauls, which adjust the sheeting angle of a foresail (jib)
Older ships (particularly square-rigged vessels) required even more running rigging like braces, which were used to adjust the fore and aft angle of a yard and braces, which adjusted the up and down angle of a yard.
Rigging (Anglo-Saxon wrigan or wrihan, to clothe) denotes a ship's apparatus of spars (including both masts and yards), sails and cordage, by which the force of the wind is used to move the hull against the resistance, and with the support, of the water.
The runningrigging by which all spars and sails are hoisted, or lowered and spread or taken in, may be divided into those which lift and lower - the lifts, jeers, halliards (haulyards, halyards) — and those which hold down the lower corners of the sails — the tacks and sheets.
The simplest of all forms of rigging is the dipping lug, a quadrangular sail hanging from a yard, and always hoisted on the side of the mast opposite to that on which the wind is blowing (the lee side).
Runningrigging is the term for the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering and controlling the sails - as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and other spars.
Some types of runningrigging include: - halyards, which are used to raise sails.
Older ships (particularly square-rigged vessels) required even more runningrigging like braces, which were used to adjust the fore and aft angle of a yard and braces, which adjusted the up and down angle of a yard.
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