CRINGLE: A reinforced eye worked into the luff or leech of a sail to form the new tack or clew when reefing.
CUDDY: A small shelter cabin in a boat.
CUNNINGHAM: (also called a Downhaul): Adjusting the tension of a sail's luff.
Cringle: Metal reinforcement ring.
Cunningham: The cringle (grommet) on the luff (forward edge) of the sail used to achieve luff tension for draft control. (sail shaping) ...
Cringle Rope round a thimble, worked into a sail.
Crown 1) Where the arms of an anchor meet the shank, 2) the knot when the strands of a rope are interlocked to start a backsplice.
Crutch Fitting to support boom.
cringle - A fitting in a sail that allows a line to fasten to it.
crosstrees - Spreaders. Small spars extending toward the sides from one or more places along the mast.
cringle - A circular eye, sometimes called a thimble or eyelet, that is used to fasten the corner of an awning, sail or any canvas item.
cripple - A vessel that does not carry her canvas stiffly. See also "Crank." ...
Cringle:
A large reinforced eye in the leech and clew of a sail that allows a line to fasten to it; e.g., the reef cringle and clew cringle.
reef cringles
Reinforced cringles in the sail designed to hold the reefing lines when reefing the sail.
reef knot ...
cringle
An eye in the edge of a sail, used to secure it to a line or shackle.
cross ...
CRINGLE A metal ring or grommet around a hole in the sail for reinforcement. CRUISER (Power boat) A boat with certain minimum appurtenances for living afloat.
A ridge of rock or coral lying at, near, or beneath the surface of the water reef band A band of stout canvas with reef points in it and earings at both ends that is sewed across the sail reef cringle A metal eye in a sail for reefing reef ...
2. Tie the luff cringle just above the boom.
3. Pull out the clew using simple rope purchase, then tie that off.
4. Lash the leech reef cringle around the boom to stop the boom dropping.
cringle: loop or eye on the edge of a sail. cutter: a sailboat with one mast stepped more than one third of the way aft, capable of carrying two or more sails ahead of the mast; also, a Coast Guard boat.
A "hand fid" is rounded at the ends, a "standing or cringle fid" is larger than a hand fid and has a flat base. FIDLEY Framework built around a weather-deck hatch through which the smoke pipe passes.
The upper end fits into a cringle or eye in the peak of the sail and the lower end into a snotter on the mast. The sprit stretches the sail quite flat and thus a boat is able to point well to windward.
Sails are attached at corners by cringles (brass rings) sewn into the clews. If a clew should come undone and a vessel hasn't got a clew, it's not going anywhere 'til it gets clewed up again.
Secure the foreward reef cringle to the boom below, and to the mast ahead, with a Reefing Tack Line.
EARING - A rope which passes through the cringle of a sail and serves to reef it.
EBB - A receding current.
EYE-BOLT - A bolt with a circular opening at one end.
The system usually consists of a line which is secured at one end to the mast or boom below the foot of the mainsail. It is then passed through a cringle in the luff of the sail near the foot, but above the tack, ...
Cringle- A fitting in a sail that allows a line to fasten to it
Crosstrees - horizontal pieces of wood or metal that cross the mast up high, acting as spreaders for the topmast shrouds.
 See also: Point, Boom, Boat, Deck, Forward
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