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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A ship's '''yard''' is a spar of wood, generally tapered at the ends, from which a [[sail|square-sail]] hangs. The lowest yard on a mast is typically named after that mast, ''e.g.'' the "foreyard" or "mainyard". An exception comes on the final mast of a ship. The lowest yard on the mizzenmast of a ship was the [[crossjack]], pronounced "crow-jack", yard.<ref>Biddlecomb, Capt. George, RN.''Art of Rigging, The, containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships''. Dover edition of 1990, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501: p. 38</ref> Most ship's rarely [[bend|bent]] a mizzen [[course]] because it would be largely blocked by the [[spanker]] just as HMS ''Sophie'' would take in her square mainsail whenever she set her fore-and-aft mainsail, and ''vice versa''. The main purpose of the crossjack yard was running the sheets of the mizzen [[topsail]].<ref>Lever, Darcy. ''The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship.'' (c)1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.: p.37</ref> ([[Midshipman|Midshipmen]] were sometimes given the task of bending, setting, handing, and unbending a crossjack as a training exercise.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A ship's '''yard''' is a spar of wood, generally tapered at the ends, from which a [[sail|square-sail]] hangs. The lowest yard on a mast is typically named after that mast, ''e.g.'' the "foreyard" or "mainyard". An exception comes on the final mast of a ship. The lowest yard on the mizzenmast of a ship was the [[crossjack]], pronounced "crow-jack", yard.<ref>Biddlecomb, Capt. George, RN.''Art of Rigging, The, containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships''. Dover edition of 1990, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501: p. 38</ref> Most ship's rarely [[bend|bent]] a mizzen [[course]] because it would be largely blocked by the [[spanker]] just as HMS ''Sophie'' would take in her square mainsail whenever she set her fore-and-aft mainsail, and ''vice versa''. The main purpose of the crossjack yard was running the sheets of the mizzen [[topsail]].<ref>Lever, Darcy. ''The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship.'' (c)1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.: p.37</ref> ([[Midshipman|Midshipmen]] were sometimes given the task of bending, setting, handing, and unbending a crossjack as a training exercise.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A ship's '''yard''' is a spar of wood, generally tapered at the ends, from which a [[sail|square-sail]] hangs. The lowest yard on a mast is typically named after that mast, ''e.g.'' the "foreyard" or "mainyard". An exception comes on the final mast of a ship. The lowest yard on the mizzenmast of a ship was the [[crossjack]], pronounced "crow-jack", yard.<ref>Biddlecomb, Capt. George, RN.''Art of Rigging, The, containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships''. Dover edition of 1990, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501: p. 38</ref> Most ship's rarely [[bend|bent]] a mizzen [[course]] because it would be largely blocked by the [[spanker]] just as HMS ''Sophie'' would take in her square mainsail whenever she set her fore-and-aft mainsail, and ''vice versa''. The main purpose of the crossjack yard was running the sheets of the mizzen [[topsail]].<ref>Lever, Darcy. ''The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship.'' (c)1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.: p.37</ref> ([[Midshipman|Midshipmen]] were sometimes given the task of bending, setting, handing, and unbending a crossjack as a training exercise.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A ship's '''yard''' is a spar of wood, generally tapered at the ends, from which a [[sail|square-sail]] hangs. The lowest yard on a mast is typically named after that mast, ''e.g.'' the "foreyard" or "mainyard". An exception comes on the final mast of a ship. The lowest yard on the mizzenmast of a ship was the [[crossjack]], pronounced "crow-jack", yard.<ref>Biddlecomb, Capt. George, RN.''Art of Rigging, The, containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships''. Dover edition of 1990, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501: p. 38</ref> Most ship's rarely [[bend|bent]] a mizzen [[course]] because it would be largely blocked by the [[spanker]] just as HMS ''Sophie'' would take in her square mainsail whenever she set her fore-and-aft mainsail, and ''vice versa''. The main purpose of the crossjack yard was running the sheets of the mizzen [[topsail]].<ref>Lever, Darcy. ''The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship.'' (c)1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.: p.37</ref> ([[Midshipman|Midshipmen]] were sometimes given the task of bending, setting, handing, and unbending a crossjack as a training exercise.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Czrisherhttp://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php?title=Yard&diff=10289&oldid=prevAquinas: wikilink2008-04-02T17:51:26Z<p>wikilink</p>
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