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Figure 35.


lower end that is laced to a matching block on the upper end of the stay collar, a sturdy, served line that anchors the stay to the hull. T e main stay has two triple blocks to adjust the tension on the stay. T e collar in French practice is doubled and goes around the foremast before being anchored to the base of the bowsprit. (Figure 33)


T e forestay is similar, but with a short collar further up the bowsprit. T e mizzen stay is a bit diff erent, leading down to the starboard side of the mainmast where the collar line runs through a doughnut- shaped bullseye that is seized into a collar around the mast. T e stay collar then leads down toward the deck where it is secured around a mast cleat. (Figure 34)


At the top of the shrouds are the futtock shrouds. T ese short lengths of rope have hooks at the upper end that hook into the iron strop of the lower deadeyes of the topmast shrouds. T eir lower ends are turned around an iron bar called a futtock


stave, then seized to the lower shrouds. To keep the futtock shrouds from pulling up and out with the strain from the topmast shrouds, a cats’ cradle lacing passes from one side of the lower shrouds to the other. (Figure 35)


At the front of each mast top is a triangular lacing of line known as a crowsfoot. It is designed to keep the bottom of the topsail from blowing under the platform and getting caught on the blocks and lines underneath. Building it begins with the central piece, the euphroe. T is fl at, elongated wooden fi tting is attached to the stay by its strop, and has a number of holes equal to half the number of holes in the rim of the top. T e lacing begins by coming up through the most central hole on one side, down to the top hole in the euphroe, then back up and down through the inside hole on the other side of the top. It continues by coming up through the next outboard hole, down and back up to the fi rst side, but through the next outboard hole. T is continues, moving outward, until all the holes have been used. T e tensions on


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