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![]() Iím posting asking about historical usage on square-rigged ships, in particular the halyards for the course yards. All the square-rigged ships I see come through New York harbor (the ones I could get close enough to) have the corse yard on a crane that keeps the spar permanently under the top. I saw Brionís puzzler concerning parrels and I noted that apparently somewhere out there they have course yards with parrels. Great! It leads me to my question
Back in the day of the wooden sailing ship the main and fore corse yards were hauled aloft with a pair of halyards rove through two pairs of (usually improbably large) blocks. Two hung under the forward edge of the top and two at the slings of the yard. On H.M.S. Victory the upper blocks had three sheaves and the lower blocks two. Here is the point I am getting at: If you use the jeers to lower the yard to Victoryís deck, you would have to use two halyards, each about 240í of fairly stout line. Haul up the yard and now you have to find someplace to put these two enormous coils. As a ship nerd, I look at an awful lot of sailing ship models. I have never seen a pair of huge coils like I imagine would be necessary anywhere in evidence on the deck. Am I misunderstanding the use of the jeers? Did they avoid dealing with impossibly large coils for extended periods of time (after all, how often do you strike the corse yard?) simply by long splicing the two long lines on only when they were needed? I have put this question to other ship nerds and ship model builders but I never get much more than what I have written above. I would love to hear other peoples two cents! -Frank in Jersey City Last edited by Frank H : 03-20-2006 at 07:36 PM. Reason: spelling |
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![]() Hi there,
That's what orlop decks are for. I'm sure if you took apart one of those models, you'd find an orlop, sometimes called a cable tier, though that was sometimes a separate place. Lots of rope there, including spares, anchor lines, topmast heelropes, and places to hide a distillery. Nice question! Fair leads, Brion Toss |
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