Stay (sailing)
See also: Stay
On a sailing ship, the stay are the cables, placed each side of the Mât, which maintain this one vertical: they take again the transverse efforts exerted by the veils.
On a modern sailing ship equipped with one gréement bermudien, there are generally several stays on each side of the Mât: stay ( 3 ), Low-stay and Galhauban. One or more bars of arrow ( 4 ), interdependent at the same time of the mast and the stays, reduces the side inflection of the mast. The stay is fixed, on the one hand with the bridge of the ship by a Cadène which is struck an adjustable turnbuckle, on the other hand with the mast with a variable height according to the type of stay. There exists sometimes, primarily on the split gréements, a pair of bastaques ( 8 ).
The stay is traditionally made up of a flexible cable made up of several strands or of a more rigid cable monotoron. An end is crimped at each end.
The mast equal is maintained in its position with before by the stay ( 1 ) and with the back by the Pataras ( 5 ).
The stays belong to the Gréement sleeping.
Certain light sailing ships, center-boards like some experimental sailing ships of croisère, do without stay. Their mast is simply fixed at the hull. Among the center-boards one can quote the Optimist, which is a sailing ship of initiation for the children.
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