Category talk:Sailing rigs and rigging

Brass Monkey
On a cold night in St. John's NL a buddy told me outside a bar that a Brass Monkey was an old term for the rails that held canon balls on a ship. When it got cold enough he said the brass would shrink faster then the balls and cause the canon balls to fall off. Hence cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. I haven't researched this, but if true it could be an interesting tid-bit.

Some counterexamples
Some examples of articles that do not belong in this category:


 * Mirror (dinghy), and all other descriptions of particular classes (as opposed to rigs).
 * Bermuda sloop. The details of interest to this project are covered instead in bermuda rig.

Feel free to add to this list! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewa (talk • contribs) 21:30, November 5, 2004


 * How about lines, such as halyard and Sheet (sailing)? &mdash; Sebastian 20:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Usefull schematics for explaining sailing rigs
The following diagram is, I think, usefull for explaining some of the differences in sailing rigs on two masted vessels: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ship_Rigging_differences_in_schematic_view.png 82.169.56.115 (talk) 16:50, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Delete "William Bell, No. 24" as an item in this listing.
"William Bell, No. 24" has ze-ro relationship to the topic of Sailing rigs and rigging. SteveO1951 (talk) 21:40, 22 February 2014 (UTC)