Instruction Manual - Nature Coast Hobby Shop
Instruction Manual - Nature Coast Hobby Shop
Instruction Manual - Nature Coast Hobby Shop
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FIG. 68<br />
FIG. 70a<br />
Standing rigging at the bowsprit.<br />
FIG. 69<br />
Lower shrouds at the main mast. Tackle is attached<br />
to running back-stay.<br />
FIG. 71<br />
Fore-stays shown running up from bowsprit. Tackle and blocks are for jib downhauls and halyards.<br />
22<br />
STAGE F<br />
STANDING RIGGING<br />
All of the standing rigging is made from<br />
the black rigging line. The color represents<br />
the tarred rigging used on life-size<br />
ships that was permanently anchored to<br />
support the masts and spars. The kit’s<br />
heavier line is used on the lower rigging<br />
and progressively reduces in size as you<br />
rig upward on the masts. Begin the rigging<br />
with the bowsprit.<br />
1. Bowsprit Rigging<br />
A slot should be made in the stem and<br />
the heaviest line should be run through<br />
it and over the bowsprit to form the<br />
gammoning (lashing). Six turns can be<br />
taken with the end lashed around the<br />
center of the turns (see figure 68). The<br />
bob-stay is a single heavy line running<br />
from a brass strap on the stem at the waterline<br />
to an eye at the cap of the<br />
bowsprit. The dolphin striker has an eye<br />
in its end which is interlocked with an<br />
eye at the square tenon of the bowsprit.<br />
It will also have three cross rods at the<br />
bottom which will be used to guide the<br />
various fore-stays back to the hull.<br />
The martingale is made from a little<br />
smaller line and should run from the end<br />
of the sprit pole to the end of the dolphin<br />
striker. From there it should run port and<br />
starboard to eyes in the hull just below<br />
the catheads.<br />
The sprit spar should be mounted at this<br />
time by pinning, gluing and lashing it to<br />
the underside of the bowsprit. Guys<br />
(steadying or stay-ropes) on either side<br />
should run back from the end of the sprit<br />
pole and sprit mast. The two inner ones<br />
should be tied to the sprit mast and the<br />
third should run to the end of the sprit<br />
pole. All should run through eyes at the<br />
end of the sprit spar and then should be<br />
tied off in eyes at the front edge of the<br />
catheads. This completes the bowsprit<br />
standing rigging.<br />
2. Fore-stays<br />
Five fore-stays on the fore mast: The<br />
three outer stays should run to the<br />
bowsprit assembly through its block<br />
holes, down to the dolphin striker, and<br />
through eyes at the side of the bowsprit<br />
to the forward pin rail (see figure 69).<br />
The next inboard fore-stay should run to<br />
an eye on the port side of the bowsprit<br />
and back to the pin rail. The last lower<br />
fore-stay is lashed around the bowsprit<br />
just ahead of the rail.<br />
Four fore-stays on the main mast: Each<br />
fore-stay runs from the main mast to the<br />
fore mast. All fore-stays should be created<br />
from progressively finer line as they<br />
move to the upper mast ends.<br />
Fore mast with shrouds and fore-stays.<br />
FIG. 72a<br />
Fore mast upper shrouds