Standing rigging on a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat. Key: 1. Forestay 2. Shroud 3. (Spreaders) 4. Backstay 5. Inner forestay 6. Sidestay 7. (Boom) 8. Running backstaysStanding rigging on a square-rigged vessel (illustrated left), which supports a mast comprising three steps: main, top, and topgallant (illustrated right). The shrouds support each section laterally and the stays support each, fore and aft.
Standing rigging comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails. This term is used in contrast to running rigging, which represents the moveable elements of rigging which adjust the position and shape of the sails.[1]
^Keegan, John (1989). The Price of Admiralty. New York: Viking. p. 280. ISBN 0-670-81416-4.
Standingrigging comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind...
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails. Standingrigging is...
each has a hull, rigging and masts to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship; the masts are supported by standingrigging and the sails are...
Zylon in 2008. On modern racing yachts, Zylon is used for parts of the standingrigging. It is used as shrouds and stays. The PBO (polybenzoxazole) fiber is...
jury-rigged and jury-rigging lies in such efforts done on boats and ships, characteristically sail powered to begin with. Jury-rigging can be applied to...
rigged with hemp, where most barges in use today use wire ropes. The standingrigging had to hold the masts, and sprit in place. As the masts were lowered...
attach the canopy to the risers. On sailboats, shrouds are used as standingrigging to keep a mast vertical. On biplanes and triplanes, shrouds are used...
demonstrated the junk sails ability to work even in the presence of some standingrigging, such as the Colvin rig, although more care must be taken to prevent...
A deadeye is an item used in the standing and running rigging of traditional sailing ships. It is a smallish round thick wooden (usually lignum vitae)...
serving the same function. Standingrigging is a structural element that holds up the masts, and loss of standingrigging puts them at risk of being sprung...
A backstay is a piece of standingrigging on a sailing vessel that runs from the mast to either its transom or rear quarter, counteracting the forestay...
sailing vessel, a forestay, sometimes just called a stay, is a piece of standingrigging which keeps a mast from falling backwards. It is attached either at...
through a hole, for instance in rigging the lanyards which tension the shrouds on older sailing ships with standingrigging of fibre cordage. It is not specifically...
licking Worm, parcel and serve, the act of applying protection to standingrigging on a boat Worm (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
yawl, schooner, wishbone, catboat. Sailboats employ standingrigging to support the rig, running rigging to raise and adjust sails, cleats to secure lines...
masts rely in part or entirely (for those stepped on the deck) on standingrigging, supporting them side-to-side and fore-and aft to hold them up. Masts...
not staysails, could also be "set flying," i.e. not attached to the standingrigging. Sails set beyond the peak were typically called jibs, set on stays...
complicated arrangement of cordage named the "running rigging". This is opposed to the standingrigging which is fixed, and keeps mast and other objects rigid...
of a large sailing ship where the sails come into contact with the standingrigging; unprotected sails would soon develop holes at the points of contact...
axe or chisel. Rigging: standingrigging (either "stays" or shrouds") are the wire cables or rods that support the mast(s). Running rigging are the ropes...
Global Information
