Rigging, the sails, masts, booms, yards, stays, and lines of a sailing vessel, or its cordage only.
"We got some sails off a big square-rigger and took them out to the desert and built a giant framework — a mast, essentially — and rigged the sails so we could get them to flap at various intensities," he said.
It was the president and Mrs. Kennedy, rigging the sails.
"This gives them back a little of their independence". To prepare for the day's trip, an able-bodied volunteer acting as Milne's assistant rigged the sails and routed all the control lines to the back of the boat, where they could be handled with a minimum of movement.
Reliant on completely unpredictable winds, carrying a huge weight of canvas and rigging the sailing ships of the past were spectacularly inefficient.
Everything, from the rigging to the sails, is prepared on site and every aspect of the construction is authentic.
"On a trimaran you have all the compression working on the main, central hull, while on a cat you have the compression of the rigging and the sails working on the crossbeam that is attaching the hulls together, and that's important," he said.
Every piece of equipment, from the complicated rigging to the sails to every piece of mechanical gear, had a common well-known name, so that the officers shouting orders in the teeth of a howling gale off Cape Horn would be absolutely certain that the crew understood their commands.
Knots were also used in the making of nets and traps, but knot making became truly sophisticated only when it began to be used in the ropes, or rigging, that controlled the sails of early sailing vessels.
Fore-and-aft sail, one of the two basic types of sailing rig, the other being the square sail.
Remnants of a shipwreck will be evident to the audience by the rigging and sails attached to the Boardwalk rail, and the scenes will exploit Coney's landscape.
