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pull hard, in other words, to land.

jib: front sail.

landing: placing the most tension possible on a rope or line.

marlinspike: an essential sailing tool; it allows you to open a rope to pull
another strand through.

planking: long planks of wood that cover the hull of a boat.

rigging: all of the metal and fabric ropes that are part of a sailboat’s equipment.

running rigging: all of the ropes on a boat.

sheave: disk recessed in the inner part of a pulley, which the ropes of a hoist

pass over.

sheets: ropes that allow you to adjust the tension on the sails.

shrouds: metal ropes that hold the masts.

spar: piece of wood that makes up the rigging.

splice: two ropes that are linked by tying together the strands.

standing end: part of the rope that is supposedly fixed; starting from the point
that you have chosen to create the knot, it is the lower part of the structure. The
standing end doesn’t move. It is passive.

strap: ring of rope closed by a splice or a bend knot.

tag end: the end of the working end that goes past the knot.

taking in the sails: action of lowering the sails along the mast or a stay.

tight: when a rope is tight it is very stretched out.

topmen: sailors who, in the era of sailing ships, climbed onto the mast.

topsail sprit: piece of wood parallel to the peak on a for-and-aft rig.