halyard|halyards in English

noun

[hal·yard || 'hælɪə(r)d]

rope for raising or lowering a flag or sail (also halliard)

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1. Why, Bart, that's a perfect halyard cleat.

2. CMC does recommend using a Halyard Clamp for easy installation.

3. Polly could hear far-off voices and laughter, and the soft tapping of metal halyards against masts.

4. At almost the same time our genoa halyard jammed and we couldn't get the sail down.

5. Sailing vessels may fly the Burgee either from the main masthead or from a halyard under the lowermost starboard spreader

6. Now, to install a Backstay flag halyard, you have to install a block of some sort high up on the Backstay,

7. Hauling a Bosuns chair up (using a climber, etc.) using the main halyard places you on the aft side of the mast

8. Most people opt to fly the Burgee lower in the rig, hoisted to the end of the lowest starboard spreader on a thin flag halyard

9. If so called Backwinding is occurring, slight decrease in halyard/cunningham tension will help to flatten the leading edge section of the luff and the 'slot open' distance become larger

10. Through the course of the evening we will explain but mostly SING many different forms of Chanteys; capstan/pumping/windlass, halyard, long and short haul Chanteys, to name a few

11. The halyard typically rises from the head of the sail to a block at the head of the mast and back down to deck level, from where it is pulled up to raise the sail.

12. To sunset, from the stern staff (when under way or occupied), or onboard sailboats—on Aftermost sail 2/3 length of the leach above the clew; onboard sportfisherman—on halyard just behind the tuna tower.

13. Capstan shanties were used when sailors needed to raise or lower sails by walking around the capstan, while halyard Chanteys were used by sailors when they needed to pull on the yards of the ship to which the sails are attached.

14. ‘The Buntline Hitch is used to tie a Buntline to a square sail.’ ‘The 4-8 tightens braces and halyards that may have gone slack overnight and usually sees to re-nipping the Buntlines.’ ‘The Buntline Hitch was originally employed to secure the Buntlines to the foot of the square sails.’