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3307. The Fm.:R-STRAND LANYARD KKOT (A) is used at the dead-

eyes in the lower rigging UJ6SS). The MATTHEW \VALKER KNOT

(B) is used aloft and elsewhere (791682).

3308. In ''lire rigging, where no considerable stretch is to be

allowed for, wire EYE SPLICES are not uncommonly used around

deadeyes and hearts.

3309. Royal backstays and topgallant mast shrouds generally have
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330 no lanyards and many of the upper fore-and-aft stays are rove

A through iron-strapped bull's-eyes and doubled back with a racking

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selzmg.

3310. A throat seizing has been the preferred method of turning

in deadeyes on American ships since the middle of the eighteenth

century. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a round seizing

appears to have been used. Seizings will be described later in this

chapter. The turn around the deadeye should always be right-handed

as illustrated, except when cable-laid rigging is used. The end should

always be inboard.
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3311. Forestay lanyards of 1891 (from the Manual of the Sea of

that date) are rove through hearts. Any lanyard lashing with four

33 " .~312. turns or over should be set up at both ends.

Four turns having been taken, the lanyards are set up with two

tackles and held with stops while seizings are added. Riding turns

are put on the seizings. The two lanyard ends are cut off where

they meet and are carefully whipped. Three or four seizings are put

on each lashing.

3312. A heart lashing in the bowsprit rigging is sometimes started

at the outer end with a LONG RUNNING EYE and the working end is

seized directly to the turns without the addition of a Cow HITCH.

3313. To reeve the lanyard of a jib-boom guy: The end of a lan-

yard in a heart lashing is made fast with an EYE SPLICE to the inner

heart and is brought up through the outer heart. After three turns

a Cow HITCH (7911673) is taken around the neck of the iron strap

and the end is seized in as illustrated.

3314. Steel, in 1794, describes as contemporary practice the fol-

lowing. The end of the lanyard, after setting up for a full due, is

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seized or stopped with racking turns as 7913362. The end is then rove

outward over the upper deadeye and under the throat seizing and

there hitched. It is then expended with round turns around th(

doubling of the shroud. The end is stopped with spun yarn to th~

shroud.

3315. The way in which the Co\,,r HITCH was taken with a cutter-

tnrned deadeye is shown here and also a way of attaching the stand-

ing end of the lanyard to an eyebolt fixed to the channel; a method

that was highly thought of in the 1880s, but soon went out of prac-

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I' eye. N~;res, in 1874, shows the lanyard secured with a round turn,

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