Bras ( Dutch bras ) - tackle of a running rigging , fixed to the nock ray (or spinnaker - boom on a yacht ) and used to turn the sail in the horizontal direction [1] [2] . Spinnaker boom is equipped with a counter-brace , conducted from his nose to nose.
Each ray has two braces , right and left, the flying bom-bram-ray has no braces at all, the grotto-ray on large ships has two braces going forward and two going backward. The strands on the windward side of the vessel are called the windward strands , the strands from the opposite side are called leeward.
To indicate which shafts of which mast serve the braces , the name of the poles and shafts: fock braces , main grotto-braces , etc. is added to their name.
A cable , one end of which is fixed to the yoke butt on the yoke of the ray, and the other ends with the block through which the brass is passed , is called a brass pendant .
Deployment of yarns with the help of braces is called a brass digging (from the verb - brasop, brass).
Notes
- ↑ Braces // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- ↑ Stanyukovich K. M. Glossary of marine terms found in stories .
Literature
- Bras // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Maritime Dictionary, M, Military publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1959
- Maritime Encyclopedic Dictionary, L-d, "Shipbuilding", 1991, ISBN 5-7355-0280-8