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14-526: Rigger may refer to: One who attends to the rigging of a sailing ship Rigger (entertainment) , those who tend rigging in stage performance (theater, film, concert, etc.) Rigger, a digital media artist who creates character rigs for animation (also called "rigging" a character) Rigger (industry) , specializing in moving large/heavy objects such as logs Parachute rigger Bondage rigger , one who ties up others primarily as an art form One who sets up

28-565: A backstay , and upper and lower shrouds (side stays). Less common rigging configurations are diamond stays and jumpers. Both of these are used to keep a thin mast in column especially under the load of a large down wind sail or in strong wind. Rigging parts include swageless terminals , swage terminals , shackle toggle terminals and fail-safe wire rigging insulators. Whereas 20th-century square-rigged vessels were constructed of steel with steel standing rigging, prior vessels used wood masts with hemp-fiber standing rigging. As rigs became taller by

42-421: A jib or a genoa . In a cutter rig, the jib or jibs are flown from stays in front of the forestay, perhaps going from the masthead to a bowsprit . The sail on the forestay is then referred to as the staysail or stays'l. A forestay might be made from stainless steel wire on a modern yacht, solid stainless steel rod, carbon rod, or ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (such as Spectra or Dyneema) on

56-575: A racing shell in the sport of rowing Rigger, Duke Nukem's henchman from the animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Rigger All pages with titles containing Rigger Outrigger , often used in rowing or canoeing Rig (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

70-404: A sailing vessel, a forestay , sometimes just called a stay, is a piece of standing rigging which keeps a mast from falling backwards. It is attached either at the very top of the mast, or in fractional rigs between about 1/8 and 1/4 from the top of the mast. The other end of the forestay is attached to the bow of the boat. Often a sail is attached to the forestay. This sail may be

84-404: A platform, called a " top ", or cross-wise beams, called " crosstrees ". Each additional mast segment is supported fore and aft by a series of stays that lead forward. These lines are countered in tension by backstays, which are secured along the sides of the vessel behind the shrouds. Running rigging is the cordage used to control the shape and position of the sails. Materials have evolved from

98-410: Is almost always between a mast and the deck , using tension to hold the mast firmly in place. Due to its role, standing rigging is now most commonly made of steel cable. It was historically made of the same materials as running rigging, only coated in tar for added strength and protection from the elements. Most fore-and-aft rigged vessels have the following types of standing rigging: a forestay ,

112-515: The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition "rigging" derives from Anglo-Saxon wrigan or wringing , "to clothe". The same source points out that "rigging" a sailing vessel refers to putting all the components in place to allow it to function, including the masts, spars, sails and the rigging. Theophrastus in his History of Plants ( c. 300 BCE) states that the rigging on King Antigonus ' fleet

126-432: The end of the 19th century, masts relied more heavily on successive spars, stepped one atop the other to form the whole, from bottom to top: the lower mast , top mast , and topgallant mast . This construction relies heavily on support by a complex array of stays and shrouds. Each stay in either the fore-and-aft or athwartships direction has a corresponding one in the opposite direction providing counter-tension. Fore-and-aft

140-469: The system of tensioning start with the stays that are anchored in front of each mast. Shrouds are tensioned by pairs of deadeyes , circular blocks that have the large-diameter line run around them, whilst multiple holes allow smaller line— lanyards —to pass multiple times between the two and thereby allow tensioning of the shroud. In addition to overlapping the mast below, the top mast and topgallant mast are supported laterally by shrouds that pass around either

154-451: The title Rigger . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rigger&oldid=1171040928 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rigging According to

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168-457: The use of Manilla rope to synthetic fibers, which include dacron , nylon and kevlar . Running rigging varies between fore-and-aft rigged vessels and square-rigged vessels. They have common functions between them for supporting, shaping and orienting sails, which employ different mechanisms. For supporting sails, halyards (sometimes haulyards), are used to raise sails and control luff tension. On gaff-rigged vessels, topping lifts hold

182-419: The yards across the top of the sail aloft. Sail shape is usually controlled by lines that pull at the corners of the sail, including the outhaul at the clew and the downhaul at the tack on fore-and-aft rigs. The orientation of sails to the wind is controlled primarily by sheets , but also by braces , which position the yard arms with respect to the wind on square-rigged vessels. Forestay On

196-409: Was made from papyrus reed . Rigging is divided into two classes, standing , which supports the mast (and bowsprit), and running , which controls the orientation of the sails and their degree of reefing . Configurations differ for each type of rigging, between fore-and-aft rigged vessels and square-rigged vessels. Standing rigging is cordage which is fixed in position. Standing rigging

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