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FIG. 9-17 RIGGING THE SPREADER YARD JEERS
MASTHEAD
EYESPLICE
JEERS
TO “A”
“A”
DOUBLE
BLOCK
JIG
TACKLE
SINGLE
BLOCK
EYEBOLT IN
DECK –
PORT SIDE
OF MAST
SPREADER
YARD
DOUBLE
BLOCK
DOUBLE
BLOCK
COLLAR
The halliard block (
jeers
) has an eye
around the masthead. The lower block is
seized around the yard. The halliard leads
below to a jig tackle, secured to an eye-
bolt at the deck just forward and to port
of the horse eyebolt. The fall belays to
the riding bitt rail (
Figure 9-17
).
The port and starboard lifts go through
blocks seized around the masthead, then
feed down to a tackle secured to an eye-
bolt in the deck near the bulwarks and
about in line with the first shroud. The
fall belays to shroud cleats (
Figure 9-18
).
Rig sheets per instructions under Topsail
Yard above.
The forward port and starboard braces
start as a pendant, then a tackle to the end
of the bowsprit, and belay to cleats at the
bow. The blocks at the end of the
bowsprit are double blocks, shared with
the topsail yard braces (
Figure 9-19
).
The after braces start as an eyesplice on the
yardarm with a pendant, down to a tackle
fastened to an eyebolt just forward of the
boom crutch on each side, and the tackle
fall belays to a cleat fixed to the upright
arm of the boom crutch (
Figure 9-20
).
FIG. 9-18 RIGGING THE SPREADER YARD LIFTS
COLLAR
JIG TACKLE
SINGLE BLOCK
SAME BOTH SIDES
LIFT
SINGLE BLOCK
EYEBOLT IN DECK NEAR BULWARKS
SINGLE BLOCKS
STOP CHOCK
FIG. 9-19 RIGGING THE FORWARD
SPREADER YARD BRACES
SAME BLOCKS SHOWN IN
FIGURE 9-13. USE OUTER
SHEAVE HOLES IN BLOCKS
FOR THIS BRACE
BOWSPRIT
SAME BOTH SIDES
BRACE
SINGLE BLOCK
PENDANT
SPREADER YARD
AFTER BRACE
SEE FIGURE 9-20
FIG. 9-20 RIGGING THE AFTER
SPREADER YARD BRACES
SAME BOTH SIDES
BRACE
SINGLE BLOCK
PENDANT
SPREADER YARD
FORWARD BRACE
SEE FIGURE 9-19
SINGLE BLOCK
EYEBOLT ON RAIL AT STERN
