Study Guide for Bytown Brigantine Trainee Logbook

Level I - Able Seaman [Junior]

Appendix I-E

Requirement of Level 1 Item 18.

Spars

  • mast
  • topmast
  • yard
  • yard arm
  • gaff
  • heel
  • boom
  • truck
  • bowsprit
  • crosstrees
  • jib boom
  • trestletrees
  • whisker boom
  • bolster
  • spreaders
  

Standing Rigging

  • stays
  • fore stays
  • back stays
  • triatic stays
  • bob stays
  • fore top
  • main top
  • shrouds
  • lower shrouds
  • whisker shrouds
  • topmast shrouds
  • tumbuckles
  • foot ropes
  • hounds
  • serving
  • turn buckle
  • baggy-wrinkles
  

Square Rigged Terms

  • aback
  • square up
  • "let go and haul"
  

Parts of Sail

  • head
  • tack
  • clew
  • luff
  • leech
  • foot
  • peak
  • throat
  • reef nettles
  • bunt panel
  • seam roach
  • cloth tabling
  • batten
  

Running Rigging

   • sheets
   • tacks
   • halyards
   • braces
   • buntlines
   • clewlines
   • out hauls
   • down hauls
   • topping lifts
   • jig tackle
   

Sailing Terms

  • to set
  • to douse
  • to furl
  • to ease
  • to sheet in
  • to overhaul
  • to pay-out
  • to cast-off
  • to reef

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