8. How should the mast be placed alongside ?

With its head aft.

9. Which mast would you take in first?

The mizen, then the main, and then the foremast. 10. Take in your mast.

Lash the lower purchase-block to the mast, at a point found by measuring the height of the spar-deck partners and a little over from the tenon of the mast. "Take the fall of the main purchase to the capstan and heave round; when the heel rises near the rail, hook on a heel-tackle to ease it inboard; get the mast fair for lowering by means of the girtlines; wipe the tenon dry, and white lead or tar both it and the step; lower away, and step the mast."

11. What would you do as the head of the mast appears above the rail?

Put on the girtline blocks for sending up the top, and reeve the girtlines.

12. Where would you place the girtline blocks?

At the extreme mast head where the lower cap will come. 13. What would you take in after your masts? The bowsprit.

14. How would you take it in ?

Over the bows with the sheers.

15. If the sheers wont rake far enough forward ? Rig a derrick from the foremast.

16. Suppose your bowsprit stepped, what would you do next?

Secure it, and then clear the decks.

17. How do you secure it?

By passing the gammoning and setting up the bobstays. 18. How do you get the bowsprit down so as to set it up? Rig out the jib-boom if I have plenty of room. If I am cramped for room hang a water cask at the bowsprit end. 19. Your lower masts being now in, what would you send up first?

The tops.

20. Where would you place the top before sending it up, and how?

Abaft the mast, with the fore part up and the under face against the mast.

21. Send it up.

Overhaul the girtlines, hitch them to the after part of the top, and stop them to the crosstrees and to the forward part; bend on a tripping line. its girtlines to the mast-head. allow the foremost edge of the mast-head, cast off the stops and line; lower, place it in its berth, and bolt it.

The top is then hoisted by When sufficiently high to lubber's hole to clear the cant it over by the tripping

22. Do you know any other way of getting the tops over the mast-heads?

Put them on as the masts are being taken in. Have them ready, and as the head of the mast appears above the rail put on a girtline block with girtline rove at the mast head.

23. Supposing you have put on the top as above, and hooked on your heel tackle, while you are wiping your tenon &c., you see a strand of your purchase breaking, what would you do?

Rack the parts together directly, and keep it so till I got a fresh purchase up.

24. What would you send up next?

The bolsters.

25. And then?

Send up the lower cap into the top by one of the girtlines at the mast-head.

26. What would you do next?

Shift the block to the after part of the trestle-tree for sending up the lower rigging.

27. What part of the rigging would you send up first? The fore swifter.

28. Go on.

Then the starboard forward pair of shrouds, next the port forward pair, then the starboard second pair, and then the port.

29. And next?

The fore-stay.

8. How should the mast be placed alongside ?

With its head aft.

9. Which mast would you take in first ?

The mizen, then the main, and then the foremast.

10. Take in your mast.

Lash the lower purchase-block to the mast, at a point found by measuring the height of the spar-deck partners and a little over from the tenon of the mast. "Take the fall of the main purchase to the capstan and heave round; when the heel rises near the rail, hook on a heel-tackle to ease it inboard; get the mast fair for lowering by means of the girtlines; wipe the tenon dry, and white lead or tar both it and the step; lower away, and step the mast."

11. What would you do as the head of the mast appears above the rail ?

Put on the girtline blocks for sending up the top, and reeve the girtlines.

12. Where would you place the girtline blocks?

At the extreme mast head where the lower cap will come. 13. What would you take in after your masts? The bowsprit.

14. How would you take it in?

Over the bows with the sheers.

15. If the sheers wont rake far enough forward ?
Rig a derrick from the foremast.

16. Suppose your bowsprit stepped, what would you do next?

Secure it, and then clear the decks.

17. How do you secure it?

By passing the gammoning and setting up the bobstays. 18. How do you get the bowsprit down so as to set it up? Rig out the jib-boom if I have plenty of room. If I am cramped for room hang a water cask at the bowsprit en 19. Your lower masts being now in, what would up first?

41. You have the lower cap in the top, proceed to place it on the mast-head.

Lash a block to one side of the mast-head, reeve a girtline through it from aft forward, and lead it down through the square hole of the trestle-trees; place the topmast with its head forward in the water; reeve the girtline through the sheave hole, stop it along the mast, and hitch it round the mast-head: sway away, ease the heel in with a heelrope, point it fair for going up, put a handspike in the fid-hole with a line at its end; place the lower cap so that its round hole shall be over the square hole of the trestle-trees; sway away on the topmast till the head has entered through the cap, then belay, and lash the cap to the topmast; sway away again till high enough, and then haul on the line from the handspike in the heel, and so slue the cap round till the square hole is over the lower mast-head; lower a little, place the cap, cast off the lashing, and beat the cap down into its place; lower down the topmast.

42. Send up the topmast cross-trees.

Place the block on the eye-bolt on the under face of the cap; overhaul down the girtlines outside the top, and hitch them one to the outer end of the forward starboard horn, the other to the after starboard horn; seize their ends; stop both girtlines to the trestle-trees and to the port horns; sway away; when high enough cast off the first stops and then the next; the man aloft placing it over the lower cap, so that the after hole between the trestle-trees is over the

round hole of the cap. When the topmast is sent up, it takes the cross-trees up with it.

43. Send up the cross-trees from the topmast head.

After getting the lower cap up, lower the topmast a little, put a bolt in the sheave hole so that the topmast rests on the trestle-trees, then shift the mast-block to the eye bolt underneath the cap. Sway away again, take out the bolt, and when the topmast has entered about two or three feet through the cap, place girtline blocks at its head. Hitch these girtlines to the horns of the cross-trees, stop them to the other horns, send up. When at the masthead

rest them on the cap, standing on their after part and their under face looking forward, cast off stops, &c.; then lower the topmast and the cross-trees will fall over the topmast head.

30. How would you send up a shroud ?

Bend on the girtline with a timber hitch below the seizing of the eye, and stop it to the crown of the eye; sway up, and when high enough it will fall over the masthead.

31. Suppose your mast-head were seven feet high, how far down from the crown of the eye would you bend on your girtline?

About 12 feet.

32. What part of the rigging would you set up first ? The fore-stay. Always stay the mast first.

33. How would you turn in a dead eye ?

With the lay of a rope.

34. How would you reeve the lanyard, and why ?

Through the hole under the end of the shroud; because, in setting it up, the strain comes on the shroud first, and keeps the dead-eye in its place. If put under the standing part, the strain coming on the end first, the deadeye would slue round.

35. What kind of a knot would you make on the lanyard? Either a single or double " Matthew Walker."

36. Where should the knot be placed ?

Underneath the end.

37. You are inboard, looking at a set of lower rigging being set up; where would the knot be ?

Right handed rigging. The knot would be aft on the port side and forward on the starboard side. It is always opposite your left eye.

38. How do you form the eye of the shroud ?

Divide the shroud into three equal parts; the middle part will be for the eye; worm it with the lay, put it on the stretch, parcel it with the lay from each end to the centre, and serve it against the lay from the centre towards each end, and then seize it.

39. How do you worm the foremast swifter?

From the bottom.

40. What allowance would you make for overlapping in the shrouds ?

The breadth of a seizing larger than the one that precedes it.