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standing rigging: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (164 words) |
 | Standing rigging includes a forestay, a backstay and the shrouds. |
| On modern yachts, standing rigging is often stainless steel wires or stainless steel rods. |
| Standing rigging is placed under tension to keep the various spars (mast, bowsprit) securely in position. |
| Rigging (3580 words) |
| 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 running rigging 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). |
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