id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 40958 Dana, Richard Henry The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service .txt text/plain 91902 7235 90 yard-arm, and lead through a single block at the mast-head, and set up other end seized to the yard, crossing the foot-rope. is through the lower cap, cast off the end of the mast-rope, letting is no rope of any kind round the yard-arm.) Reeve the lifts and braces, reeve a heel-rope through a block at the jib-boom end, and bend it to reeve the yard-rope through the sheave-hole of the topgallant mast, yard-rope through a jack-block at the mast-head, unhook the tye, cast TO SET A TOPGALLANT SAIL OR ROYAL.--Haul home the lee sheet, having one head yards, keeping the sails full, board fore tack and aft the sheet, studdingsail, brace up the head yards, haul forward the fore tack, and A rope or tackle, going from the yard-arms to the mast-head, to A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the vessel's ./cache/40958.txt ./txt/40958.txt