Then I needed to think of my own safety and passed a turn of the mizzen gaff-topsail downhaul about me, belaying to a pin as the cataclysm hit us.
A downhaul should be attached to the end of the gaff, as the peak will not always drop when the wind is pressing the sail against the topping lift.
Instead of bringing the tack close in to the mast, the sail is taken outside the forestay and the tack downhaul belayed on the opposite side to which the sail is set.
I remember one day in a reefing job, the downhaul parted and came down on deck from the peak of the spanker.
I coiled down the mizzen-topsail downhaul myself, and was going aft to see how she headed up, when I stopped to look at a light, and leaned against the deck-house.
When the weather moderated, and we shook the reefs out, the downhaul was forgotten until we happened to think we might soon need it again.
Sometimes it is well to make up the downhaul as is done with the downhaul of the topmast studdingsail.
To hoist it, let go the downhauland royal stay, and haul on the halyards.
Hitch the end of the downhaul over the inner yard-arm by the eye in its end, reeve it through the lizard on the outer leech, and through the block at the outer clew abaft the sail.
Take your tack under the yard and bend it by a sheet-bend to the outer clew, and pay down the sheet and downhaul through the lubber-hole.
Haul it down, cast off the hank seizings and the tack-lashing, cast off and unreeve the downhaul and make it fast round the sail, and cast off the sheet-pennant lashings.
Clew the yard down by the downhaul, and make the downhaul up just clear of the block, by a catspaw doubled and the bight of the running part shoved through the bight of all the parts, so that hauling on it may clear it and let the yard go up.
Reeve the downhaul up through the hanks and make it fast to the head of the sail.
Small sized vessels have no downhaulto the topgallant studdingsails.
Bend the jib halyards round the body of the sail, and the downhaul to the tack.
In 1886 a Mr. Waddington, of England, brought out a small electric accumulator boat with downhaul screws arranged in vertical tubes.
The method of submerged control, which he devised, consisted of the use of two downhaul screws located in sponsons on either side of the vessel.
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