The topmast studdingsail is sometimes made with a reef in it, to be carried with a single reefed topsail; in which case it is reefed on deck to the yard and sent out as before.
Single blocks at the yard-arms, through which the studdingsail halyards lead.
If there are any studdingsail booms on the lower or topsail yards, they must be triced up before reefing.
Get the studdingsail clear, bend the outer halyards to the yard, and the inner halyards to the inner cringle at the head of the sail.
Rig in the topmast studdingsail boom before unreeving the outer halyards.
Used for bending studdingsail halyards to the yard.
The topmaststuddingsail halyards are generally kept coiled away in the top.
Iron rings on the yards, through which the studdingsail booms traverse.
Run the new sail up to the yard abaft the old one, and send the old one down by the leechlines and the head-earings, bent to the topmast studdingsail halyards, or some other convenient rope.
Before rigging out the top-mast studdingsail boom, the lower halyards should always be rove, as before directed.
To improve our chance of being seen, I provided for setting up a topgallant-studdingsail boom as a mast, at the head of which we should be able to show a colour.
We did so, and that so suddenly, that the studdingsail booms snapped like pipe--shanks, short off by the irons.
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