- lift is hooked on to an eye in an iron band encircling
the boom; the hauling part is rove through a single block on the hounds of the mast and then leads down the mast to terminate in a purchase similar to that used for the throat halyards.
The peak downhaul, Fig. 55, 26, is a line leading through a single block at the gaff end. It is used for hauling down the peak when the mainsail is being lowered. On small crafts it also serves as the ensign halyards.
We next come to the running rigging of the foresail. Even on large yachts no purchase is fitted to the standing part of the fore halyards; for as the sail is set on a stay, its luff being attached to the hanks which work on the forestay, it needs but little power to haul it taut. On a ten-tonner the fore halyards are generally fitted as follows. The standing part is hooked on to an eyebolt on one side of the masthead under the yoke, then the rope is led through a single block hooked on to the cringle at the head of the sail, passes up again to be rove through a single block hooked on to an eyebolt under the yoke (on the opposite side of the mast to that on which the eyebolt for the standing part is fixed), and then leads down the mast to its belaying-pin.
On a small cutter the tack cringle of the foresail is usually hooked on to the stem; but on larger vessels a tack tackle is employed.
The foresheets are fitted in various ways. The
