10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLEW LINE»
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The 44-gun Frigate USS Constitution: "Old Ironsides"
22 Clew garnet 23 Sheet 24 Tack 25 Bowline 26 Main topsail 27 Bowline 28
Clew line 29 Reef tackle 30 Sheets x23 REAR =22 SCALE lN FEET. K3 SHlP
WlTH SQUARE- SAlLS AS RlGGED BETWEEN 1803 AND 1815 1 Fore course 2
...
Karl Heinz Marquardt,
2005
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American Ship Models and How to Build Them
... 35, 36, fore topgallant clew line; 37, 38; 39, fore topgallant buntline; 40, jib
halliard buntline; 41, fore topmast staysail halliard; 42, flying- jib halliard; 43, 44,
fore royal clew line; 45, 46, fore royal sheet; 47, 48; 49, 50, fore topgallant sheet;
51, ...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
First man the lee sheet; and, the sail being loosed, ease down the bunt-lines and
lee clew-line, and haul home the lee sheet; then haul home the weather sheet,
hoist the sail, and brace up as required. Should the wind be quartering, the lower
...
Nathaniel Bowditch, William Hooker,
1837
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Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities and Illustrated ...
Man the clew-line, sheets, and inner halliards, have hands by the outer halliards
and outhaul, Clew ur ! The outhaul being let go, the clew is hauled up to the yard
; then Lower away, haul in ! Ease off the outer halliards, and haul in on the inner ...
Stephen Bleecker Luce,
1863
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
First man the lee sheet ; and, the sail being loosed, ease down the bunt-lines and
lee clew-line, and haul home the lee sheet; then haul home the weather sheet,
hoist the soil, and brace up as required. Should the wind be quartering, the lower
...
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Hunt's Yachting Magazine
In bending on the clew-line of this and all other gaff-topsails there exists a faulty
plan with some sailing-masters ; they lash a small block to the topsail yard just
about the slings ; reeve the clew -line through this and make the standing part
fast ...
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A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Illustrated with a ...
... may be hauled in with ease, and the yard laid to the wind; and, when the lee
clew-line is half up, ease oft' the weather sheet, and run up the weather clew-line;
then haul tight the lee.br:tce, bowse tight the rolling-taeltlp, and furl the sail.
William Falconer, William Burney,
2012
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The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; Or, A Key to the ...
To take in the fore top-sail, the clew-lines, down-haul tackle and weather brace
are well manned, the halliards are let go, the weather brace hauled in, the
weather sheet started, and the clew-line hauled up : the bow-line is then let go,
the lee ...
Darcy Lever, George William Blunt,
1853
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The Generall Historie of Virginia
The Clew garnet is a rope made fast to the clew of Clew Garnet. the saile, and
from thence runnes in a blocke seased to the middle of the yard, which in furling
doth hale up the clew of the saile close to the middle of the yard, and Clew line.
the ...
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The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key to the ...
To take in the Fore Topsail, the Clew-lines, Down-haul Tackle and Weather
Brace are well manned, the Halliards are let go, the 'Veather Brace hauled in, the
Weather Sheet started, and the Clew-line hauled up: the Bowline is then let go,
the ...
Darcy LEVER (of Pontefract.),
1819
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLEW LINE»
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Er, lads, I think it's fish for dinner — again
We haul this odd package up into place, then pull on the clew line at its corner, bursting the first tie. Immediately the wind tears into it, all the ... «The Sunday Times, Jan 15»