Chapter IX: Part VIII

421. Stowing Hammocks, 229
422. Cockbilling Yards, 230
423. Dressing Ship with Flags, 230
424. Keeping the Copper clean, 231
425. Furling from a Bowline, 232
426. High and Low Bunts, 233
427. To Clear Mast-heads, 233
428. Placing belaying-cleats in Tops, 234
429. Making Swabs, 234
430. Stowage of Swabs, 235
431. Junk, 235
432. Making Mats, and Chafing Gear, 235
433. Gaskets, 236
434. Scraping and Greasing Mats, 237
435. Manning Yards, 237
436. Man Ropes--(side), 238
437. Spare Dead-eyes, 238
438. Hide Rope, 239
439. Hawse-hole Windsail, 239
440. Fighting Ladders, 239
441. Hawse Bucklers, 239
442. Making-fast a Warp to a Vessel, 240
443. Fitting Quarter Boats’ Gripes, 240
444. Fitting Gigs’ Slings, 240
445. Scrubbing a Boat’s bottom on leaving Harbor, 241
446. Carrying Light Boats on Shore, 241
447. Miscellaneous Notes on Working Boats, 242
448. Duties of Boats’ Crews, 243
449. Boats going on Distant Service, 243
450. Boats under Sail, 244
451. Giving a rope to a Boat, 244
452. Crossing a Bar with Surf--in Boats, 245
453. Hauling up Boats, 246
454. Lowering Boats, 246
455. Turning up the Hands, 246
456. Inspection of Rigging, Morning and Evening, 247
457. Inspection of Stowed Anchors, at Sea, 247
458. Inspection of Boats at Sea, 248
459. Gammoning the Bowsprit, 248
460. Precaution in Reeving Running-rigging, 249
461. Topsail Tyes, 249
462. Precaution in Blacking Rigging, 250
463. Fore and Main Buntlines, 250
464. Topgallant Mast Ropes, 250
465. Futtock Shrouds, 251
466. Tops and Half-Tops, 251
467. Striking or Housing Topmasts, 251
468. Swaying up Topmasts, 252
469. Unmooring, 252
470. Reef-lines to the Topsails, 253
471. Reefing Courses, 253
472. Topgallant-Masts struck, 254
473. Hailing aloft, 254
474. Proportions for Cables (Hemp), 254
475. Proportions for Anchors, 254
476. What length is necessary to form a Clinch, 255
477. References to Sketch of Temporary Rudder, 255
478. To Splice an Old Cable to a new one, 255
479. Strip Ship, 256
480. Proportions of Spars of Merchant Ships, Length of Spars, &c. 256
481. Thickness of Spars (Masts), 257
482. Yards, 257
483. Distance for Placing Lower Masts, 257
484. Rule for Placing Masts in a Ship, 257
485. Raising Shears on a Wharf, 258
486. To find the Tonnage of a Vessel by U. S. Measurement, 259
487. Stepping and Raking Lower Masts, 259
488. Mooring, 260

PART IX.

489. Preparations for Heaving-down, 261
490. A Derrick, 269
General Cautions, 270

PART X.

491. Explanation of Sea Terms, 273