I go aloft
10 March 2019 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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First lessons in making sail -- myself aloft in youth (wearing red trousers, on inboard side of upper yardarm).
The mainsail has already been unfurled but is still held hoisted up against the yard by its buntlines (along the middle of the sail) and clewlines (attached to the two outer edges, or 'clews').
Those of us on the main-topsail yard are busy reaching down over the furled sail (stuffed into the 'bag' of its own final foot or so, with the resulting sausage then lifted up onto the yardarm and tied up with the gaskets) to undo the knots holding the gaskets and loose the topsail, which will then dangle down like the mainsail below.
Slacking off the buntlines and clewlines from where they are secured around the belaying-pins on deck will allow the sails to be hauled down and set!
First lessons in making sail -- myself aloft in youth (wearing red trousers, on inboard side of upper yardarm).
The mainsail has already been unfurled but is still held hoisted up against the yard by its buntlines (along the middle of the sail) and clewlines (attached to the two outer edges, or 'clews').
Those of us on the main-topsail yard are busy reaching down over the furled sail (stuffed into the 'bag' of its own final foot or so, with the resulting sausage then lifted up onto the yardarm and tied up with the gaskets) to undo the knots holding the gaskets and loose the topsail, which will then dangle down like the mainsail below.
Slacking off the buntlines and clewlines from where they are secured around the belaying-pins on deck will allow the sails to be hauled down and set!