Sentence examples for running rigging from inspiring English sources
noun
The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.
An inboard instrumentation system has been developed on a J80 yacht to simultaneously and dynamically measure the navigation parameters, yacht's motion, and sails flying shape and loads in the standing and running rigging.
While you have Richard at your boat, you should ask him to take a look at your standing and running rigging.
The running rigging is subdivided into the lifts, jeers, and halyards (haulyards), by which the sails are raised and lowered, and the tacks and sheets, which hold down the lower corners of the sails.
The ropes by which the yards, on square riggers, the booms of fore-and-aft sails, and sails, such as jibs, are manipulated for trimming to the wind and for making or shortening sail are known as the running rigging.
The wheel ropes of the Argus, as well as the running rigging, were soon shot away and she became unmanageable.
The yards were slung with chains, replacing ropes that might be carried away by a lucky shot; and the running rigging was reinforced with stopper ropes as a further precaution.
In addition, the running rig has been changed to the latest and greatest Dyneema ropes and I've added a wind generator for generating electricity and for redundancy if the engine fails, so we can still keep the boat operational, running the heater and onboard electronics.
He was a perennial rightwing candidate who came to power in a 1988 election that was run and rigged by a neo-Duvalierist military junta.
Drillmaster Valery Novik rolls his eyes and says, "We are too busy running these rigs, working back-to-back shifts, seven days a week, to worry about what the bosses get up to".
Drillmaster Valery Novik rolls his eyes and says, "We are too busy running these rigs, working back-to-back shifts, seven days a week, to worry about what the bosses get up to". Abramovich and Berezovsky now began to consolidate control over their share in Russia's former state enterprises.
The promise of a $299 VR headset running on rigs powered by integrated graphics seemed to be a game-changer.
