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Running rigging

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

Running rigging is the term for the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering and controlling the sails - as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and other spars. The running rigging includes halyards and sheets.

Some types of running rigging include:

halyards, which are used to raise sails
sheets, which control the angle of a sail to the wind
downhauls, which lower a sail or a yard, and can be used to adjust the tension on the luff of a sail
Cunninghams, which tighten the luff of a sail
guys, which control spinnakers
topping lifts, which hold up booms or yards
barber hauls, which adjust the sheeting angle of a foresail (jib)

Older ships (particularly square-rigged vessels) required even more running rigging like braces, which were used to adjust the fore and aft angle of a yard and braces, which adjusted the up and down angle of a yard.

Sails, Spars and Rigging
Sails
Course \| Driver \| Extra \| Genoa \| Gennaker \| Jib \| Lateen \| Mainsail \| Spanker \| Spinnaker \| Staysail \| Studding \| Tallboy \| Topgallant \| Topsail \| Trysail
Sail Anatomy
Clew \| Dacron \| Foot \| Head \| Kevlar \| Leech \| Luff \| Tack
Spars
Boom \| Bowsprit \| Gaff \| Mast \| Mast (Fore) \| Mast (Jigger) \| Mast (Main) \| Mast (Mizzen) \| Masthead Truck \| Spar \| Spinnaker Pole \| Yard
Rigging Components
Backstay \| Block \| Cleat \| Cunningham \| Forestay \| Gooseneck \| Guy \| Halyard \| Knot \| Peak \| Preventer \| Rigging \| Rigging (Running) \| Rigging (Standing) \| Rope \| Sheet \| Shroud \| Stays \| Throat \| Truck