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All rigging gear, such as slings, shackles, spreaders, and hooks, must be rated for the load that is being lifted.
Such rigging is virtually impossible in a liquid market, and it will cost that slimeball dearly to try.
There is an anchor locker forward and rigging shrouds are well inboard for easy passage fore and aft.
The only problems I had in assembling the brake rigging and other parts was the tight fit of the tabs into their slots due to being painted.
Brave new storylines are plotted, tackling issues like illiteracy, drink driving and vote rigging.
Pete was volunteered to do the rigging, and was soon edging his way out on the rather vague ledges.
Old bottlescrews or turnbuckles were reconditioned, and new wire was spliced for the standing rigging.
While initially, the supply to mariners for rigging and ropes was steady, when sail gave way to steam the market failed.
I remembered when my father once climbed those rings when we were moving under full sail to free some tangled rigging aloft.
Ships were dressed with flags and sailors climbed the rigging or stood on decks, caps in hand, to cheer the Queen.
The main brace, being one of the heaviest pieces of running rigging in a ship, was seldom spliced if damaged, but was replaced instead.
We decided that even if all the slack in the rigging had been removed, the 45m rope would still have been well short.
As with the bobstay chains were used for the bowsprit shrouds from about 1850, which were set up with hearts or rigging screws.
We maneuvered carefully across the gap in the rigging to cut the remainder of the sail free.
I was looking closely at the rigging last week and noticed the backstay was very loose.
Even before the parts came out in book form, boys were forming into patrols, rigging up uniforms and importuning adults to be their Scoutmasters.
Additionally all the rigging, anchor ropes, cargo nets, fishing nets, flags and shrouds were produced from the canes.
Pennants flapped from the rigging like welcome garlands and tiny bandsman hugged tight their brass instruments amidst the crush.
A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
All standing rigging is made from 4 mm stainless steel wire with rolled cotter terminals and bottlescrews on deck.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Those which are seized upon a vessel's standing rigging, to prevent its being chafed.
Bar shot appears in a Castillo inventory of 1706, and like chain shot, was for specialized work like cutting a ship's rigging.
The yards had been previously slung in chains, stoppers prepared for the rigging, and preventer braces rove.
The only safeguard lies in rigging a preventer stay that will set up with a tackle, the fall leading inboard.
The pinnace was then stripped of her rigging and of all the goods which remained.
Up the rigging and down the stays, alow and aloft, out on the flying jib-boom and along the hammock nettings.
My jolly boat was on deck, and I was informed, all my rigging was disposed of.
They scrubbed the clothes, dried them in the rigging, and coped them away for brandy.
The stranger was a large schooner, and the tautness of the spars and rigging showed that she was in beautiful order.
So did we, and, further, ran a line from the cringle in her foresail to the weather rigging.
The bolsters under the eyes of the rigging should always be covered with tarred parcelling, marled on.
The use of airplanes in this country will require men for rigging, for truing up the wires and struts.
He saw her before she saw him, saw her face illumined by the light of the flare in the rigging above the tryworks.
Above their heads the wind thrummed and whistled in the rigging, and the clean, unbreathed odour of the sea was salt and bracing.
The bushmen clung in the rigging, too witless to watch out for the topmast.
I soon began to climb the rigging of the brig, ascending to the mast-heads.
I had already made my selection, when suddenly a voice called out from the rigging, 'banzai!
He found Johnny in the barn, rigging a new block and tackle for the hayloft.
Aloft was the boson, apparently rigging up some sort of a hoisting arrangement.
Jacob amused himself by rigging a fishing line out of some of the packaging material that contained his food.
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