How To Use Backstay In A Sentence
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I was looking closely at the rigging last week and noticed the backstay was very loose (not under sail, just dockside).
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A tight headstay is achieved with tight shrouds, tight backstay, and minimum headstay length.
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If the headstay is not long enough, pulling on any backstay will over flatten the jib and this is very slow.
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There are four major parts of the rig that may fail: the mast, forestay, backstay, and shrouds.
Sailing Fundamentals
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The longitudinal pressure is counteracted by the bobstays, stays and backstays.
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The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
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The only real noise was the sheets screeching through the blocks and the deafening creak when one running backstay was let off and the other was ground on hard.
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The 7.5 m long anchor span consists of a 10 m wide, 9 m deep posttensioned central box girder that houses anchorages for the backstays.
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The other end of each shroud and backstay is attached to an adjustable device called a turnbuckle.
Sailing Fundamentals
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The bobstay, forestay and one running backstay were made up by my local chandler from the drawings below.
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The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
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In the same way, it is possible to become an expert on the apparatus of the old-time naval world — backstays and top-gallants, twenty-four pounders and hardtack — without having the faintest idea how to fire a gun, reef a sail, or fother a ship's bottom.
In Which We Serve
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Each mast was lifted and guyed with the two permanent backstays and two temporary forestays.
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My backstay was attached to a U-bolt which used a piece of oak for the backing plate.
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The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
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When you tension the backstay so the headstay becomes straight, the mast will then have prebend in it.
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The fully battened mainsail is loose-footed and stands a bold roach which has to brush past the backstay during a tack.
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Now, master," shouted I, "put the helm up and lay him alongside -- there stand by with the grapplings -- one round the backstay the other through the chainplate there -- so, -- you have it.
Tom Cringle's Log