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 the most effective angle, and also makes the labour easier. In larger vessels the standing part of each foresheet is stropped to one of the single blocks hooked on to the clew, is rove through a single block fastened to the deck or bulwarks about abreast of the mast, then back through the block on the clew of the sail, and thence aft to its belaying-pin.

On a small yacht the jib halyards are fitted in exactly the same way as the fore halyards. They are rove through a single block, which is hooked or shackled on to the head of the sail; the eyebolt to which the standing part of the halyards is hooked, and the upper block through which they lead, are on opposite sides of the mast, above the yoke, close under the masthead. On all large vessels a jib purchase is fitted to the standing part of the jib halyards.

The tack of the jib is hooked on to an iron traveller, a hoop working easily on the bowsprit. The traveller is then hauled out to the bowsprit end by the jib out-haul which is thus fitted. One end of a rope is spliced into an eye on the traveller, and the other end is rove through a sheave-hole at the bowsprit end just inside the cranse iron. The rope enters the sheave-hole from above, and coming out beneath, has a single block spliced into its end. Another rope is rove through this block, one end of the rope being made fast to the bowsprit bitts or to some other convenient place, while the other end leads on board to form the hauling part. A small