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 Galvanised (Fig. 38) should be spliced into the ends of such parts of rigging as have frequently to be hooked and unhooked. When hooking a clip-hook to an eye, the two parts of the clip-hook are opened out; they are then closed over the eye, one part overlapping the other. The two parts should always be seized together, else they may shake open and release the eye. Mousing is the sailor's name for this operation.

In Fig. 38 is shown the method usually employed on small boats for hooking the jib-sheets on to the clew of the jib by means of clip-hooks. The sheets are formed by one rope, in the middle of which the eye of the clip-hooks is seized with strong twine. Clip-hooks are more convenient than the wooden toggles often used for jib-sheets, and are also to be preferred to spring clip-hooks, which are apt to shake open despite the spring which is supposed to keep them closed.