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The seaman's friend : containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service, laws relating to the practical duties of master and mariners

CONTENTS PART I. A PLAIN TREATISE ON PRACTICAL SEAMANSHIP. CHAP. I. — General Rules and Observations, pages 13 — 18. Construction of vessels, 13. Tonnage and carriage of merchant vessels, 14. Proportions of spars, 14. Placing the masts, 16. Size of anchors and cables, 16. Lead-lines, 17. Log-line, 17. Ballast and lading, 18. CHAP. II. — Cutting and fitting Standing Rigging, 19 — 25. Cutting lower rigging, 19. Fitting lower rigging, 20. Cutting and fitting topmast rigging, 21. Jib, topgallant and royal rigging, 21. Ratling, 23. Standing rigging of the yards, 23. reast-backstays, 25. CHAP. III. — Fitting and reeving Running Rigging, 26 — 29. To reeve a brace, 26. Fore, main, and cross-jack braces, 26. Fore and mam topsail braces, 26. Mizzen topsail braces, 27. Fore, main, and mizzen topgallant and royal braces, 27. Halyards, 27. Spanker brails, 28. Tacks, sheets, and clewlines, 28. Reef-tacnles, clewgarnets, buntlines, leechlines, bowlines, and slablines, 29. CHAP. IV. — To rig Masts and Yards, 30 — 36. Taking in lower masts and bowsprit, 30. To rig a bowsprit, 31. To get the tops over the mast-heads, 31. To send up a topmast, 31. To get on a topmast cap, 32. To rig out a jib-boom, 3

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