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 and the bowsprit end, and the spreader and the turnbuckle which sets them up. The strain is thus divided equally and advantageously. The bobstay spreader or dolphin-striker should always have a hinged joint.

The rigging of Uncas is fitted as follows: Bobstay, 2-1/2-inch steel wire; forestay, 2-inch do.; jibstay, 1-1/4-inch do.; bowsprit shrouds, 1-1/2-inch do.; standing rigging, 1-1/4-inch do.; masthead shroud, 1-3/8-inch do.; topmast gear, all 1 inch do.; runner shrouds, 1-1/4-inch do.; spring stay, 1-1/2-inch do.; main lifts, 1-1/2-inch flexible 19-thread steel wire; gaff bridles, 1-1/4-inch do.; peak and throat halyards, 2-1/4-inch manila bolt-rope; main sheet, 2-inch do.; fore sheet, 1-3/4-inch do.; head sheets and minor gear in proportion.

The Vigil, of similar design, is rigged precisely the same, with the exception that her main peak and throat halyards are of 1-inch flexible steel wire, the fore peak and throat halyards of 7/8-inch do.; club-topsail halyards, 7/8-inch do.

Lengths of manila are so spliced to these flexible wire halyards that when they are belayed the splice is about six feet above the deck. This flexible steel answers remarkably well. When once set up, it stays set up. There is no "give" to it, and thus frequent "swaying on it," as is the case with hemp rope, is quite unnecessary.

A modern 25-foot-water-line single-sticker with a pole mast, is rigged as