CHAPTER VI.

A CUTTER’S RIGGING.

The bowsprit--Backstays--Main halyards--Tack tricing line--Lacing mainsail to boom--Maintack tackle--The gaff--Foresheets--Forehorse--Jib sheets--Mainsheet-horse--Topsail--Spinnaker--Strops for blocks, etc.--The YAWL--The KETCH.

As this is a treatise on small craft, we will speak of the cutter, yawl, and ketch-rigged yachts only, for the schooner rig is only adapted to a larger style of vessel.

With the object of familiarizing the reader with the names of those portions of her rigging common to nearly all boats, we have already, in