BRIDLE: A line or wire secured at both ends in order to distribute a strain between two points.
BRIGHTWORK: Varnished woodwork and/or polished metal.
BULKHEAD: A vertical partition separating compartments.
Bridle A rope attached to both sides of a boat or object to lift it. Lifting tackle or towing tackle.
Bring up To stop, as to come to anchor.
Broach When running, to accidentally turn and get broadside on to wind and sea.
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A short length of wire with a line attached at the midpoint. A bridle is used to distribute the load of the attached line. Often used as boom travelers and for spinnaker down hauls.
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Bridle - Short rope with each end secured to the boat so that another line can be attached to its center. Often used when towing another boat. Can be used while anchoring to angle boat into the waves ...
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An arrangement of several lines of wires used for hoisting or rigging.
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Tow Bridle / Tow Line Design Considerations
Generally pay out enough tow line length to place the towed vessel behind the second wake of the towing vessel based on speed and weather conditions.
Prepare a bridle to put through the eye of the mooring line, and fasten it to one of the bow cleats. It is very important to use a bridle since, very often, the moorings ball line is kind of short.
a boat during winter storage lazarette A small space below deck, usually aft, where spare parts are kept [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] lazy guy Rigging to steady the boom to prevent a jibe in rough seas lazy jacks A bridle of light ...
By attaching the sea anchor to a bridle running from bow to stern, the boat can be held at any angle relative to the wind.
To equalize and minimize strains on main booms, mainsheet bridles are now fitted. Overhangs are growing longer and longer and bowsprits shorter.
The rode is then attached to a bridle ( a line running from one port winch or cleat, into the water behind the stern and attached to the starboard winch or cleat.) A bridle will reduce the load on a cleat or winch by distributing the force between ...
The mainsheet is rigged bridle style on top of the hard dodger. Halyards are led aft, through the dodger to banks of stoppers near the twin wheels. The helmsman can reach everything very easily.
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Up to 1908 the greater part of the traffic for Bogota crossed the river at this point, and was carried on mule-back over the old cantina real, which was at best only a rough bridlepath over which transportation to Bogota (67 m. distant) was ...
Mooring - The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors, fastenings, cables or bridles.
Mooring Block - A heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.
 See also: Boat, Hull, Point, Sailing, Running
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