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Entries explain hardware and fittings such as bowsies, deck eyes, eyebolts, eyelets, ferrules, mast hardware, rigging screws, pulleys, shroud and chain/shroud plates, spreaders, and line/sheet components. The glossary also clarifies sail terminology including Bermudan rig corners and edges, gaff sail parts, tabling and bolt rope, jib construction, and common sailing actions like raising canvas and battening down.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":30,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/technology/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/terminology-yacht-parts-fittings-sails-sheets/426087/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/terminology-yacht-parts-fittings-sails-sheets/426087.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"jayni","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-20","2026-09-28",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":29},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What does a bowsie refer to on yachts?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"A bowsie is a small drilled plate through which a line or cord runs for adjustment. 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Small drilled ‘plate’ through which runs a line, or cord, for adjustment of that line. Pre-war bowsies were often made in ivory, some were made in a fine plywood; today hard plastic is used.  \nBowsie, ring. A circular version of the flat bowsie, usually for larger yachts such as the A-class.  \nDeck eye. An eye on a horizontal plate with fixing holes, located on the deck. Normally used for accepting backstay/forestay attachment, also shroud attachment on smaller yachts.  \nEyebolt. An eye, at the end of a threaded spigot, or bolt.  \nEyelet, sail. A sail eyelet is a brass part, in the shape of a ‘funnel’ before compression, and when pressed into a hole in a sail it makes a firm metal ring. It is then used to facilitate making off a line (or on occasions a wire hawser in full size practise) . Larger/stronger eyelets used on laying up covers for full size boats, were turnovers, where a brass ring was firstly sewn in place over a hole punched in the sail or sheet, the turnover (eyelet) was then hammered in place using a rawhide mallet and dies. It made an immensely strong eyelet.  \nFerrule (slang, crimp). A brass ferrule, or sleeve, which when made off on one end of a wire, secures/attaches it by means of a loop made in the wire to a fitting or line.  \nHead crane. A crane which fits into the head (top) of a mast, usually to accept a backstay (and in some cases to accept the mainsail hoist) .  \nKicking strap, gooseneck fitting (American; vang) . Apparatus fixed at base of mast to facilitate/control mainsail boom movement, & adjustment of. More correctly ‘gooseneck’ is only applied to a fitting that allows the mains’l boom to be raised through 90 degrees (on full size yachts) .  \nLine. A cord travelling from, made off to, a sail or boom or rail, to facilitate adjustment, control, tensioning.  \nMast foot. A fitting, or insert, to the base of the mast, either a fixed fitting, or to facilitate some kind of lateral adjustment. Pulley. A grooved wheel or disc, running between a pair of cheeks, to accept travel of a line, or sheet, to change its direction of travel.  \nRigging screw. Turnbuckle, otherwise bottle screw (double ended), which has a threaded body with adjustable eye at each end, used to adjust tension of wire shrouds. Modern rigging screws are often single ended with one end threaded and the other using a swivelling wire hook which hooks into a deck fitting such as a deck eye, or shroud, or chain, plate.  \nSheet. Cordage, line, and which on a model runs from a sail winch to control the sails, and on a full size yacht a line to adjust a sail.  \nSheet lead. Tube, housed in a seating plate to allow sheet line to be guided from below deck to above deck.  \nShroud. A wire (or on small yachts, a cord) side stay to a mast, for supporting/stiffening same. Forestay and backstay are self-explanatory.  \nShroud plate (or chain plate) . A deck plate, with securing holes to screw into deck, and drilled with a series of holes to enable a shroud wire (via a rigging screw) to be attached with fore/aft adjustment.  \nSpreader. A fitting used on a mast, to ‘spread’ the shroud wires to stabilise and resist sideways thrust of the mast; generally sited at around the halfway point on the mast. Two sets of spreaders may sometimes be used.  \nUpon SAILS (and sailcloth).  \nBermudan rigged (triangular) sails. The foresail is also known as the jib. The mainsail is the sail aft of the mast.  \nThe fore corner of any Bermudan sail at the foot is the tack. The after corner is the clew or clue. The top corner is the head. The leading edge of any sail is the luff. The after edge is the leech. The base is the foot. The very top is the head. On a Bermudan sail the after edge (leech) often has a curve, or roach, which requires battens (stiffeners) .  \nGaff sail. A four-sided m","cbCailAeyicJpDUM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailAeyicJpDUM","pdf",130700,"English","# Bowsie\n## Deck eye\n## Eyebolt\n# Sail eyelet and ferrule\n# Mast hardware and rigging screws\n# Sheets and lines\n# Shrouds and plates\n# Spreaders\n# Bermudan sails\n# Gaff sail\n# Tabling and bolt rope","[{\"question\":\"What does a bowsie refer to on yachts?\",\"answer\":\"A bowsie is a small drilled plate through which a line or cord runs for adjustment. A ring bowsie is the circular version, commonly used on larger yachts.\"},{\"question\":\"How is a sail eyelet constructed and used?\",\"answer\":\"A sail eyelet is a brass funnel-shaped piece pressed into a sail hole to form a firm metal ring, allowing lines or wires to be secured. 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