- Take no unnecessary chances and avoid grandstanding.
- One hand for the man and one for the ship. Men aloft have
four
points of contact with the rigging: two hands and two feet. Three of
these points are always kept in firm contact with part of the standing
rigging; being sure never to get support from running rigging such as
clewlines, buntlines, or other gear which may come slack.
- Ratlines are light and sometimes carry away, shrouds and
backstays never do, consequently, when going aloft cadets should always
keep their hands on the shrouds and use the ratlines only for their
feet. They climb one ratline at a time.
- When laying out on the yard, cadets use the jackstay for
their hands, never trusting gaskets or bights of the sail.
- They never stand on the yard unless ordered to. They do use
the
flemish horses on the yardarms. Special circumstances may, at sometime,
require a cadet to straddle a yard or even stand on it; when this is
necessary, it is done only after carefully thinking what will happen if
the sail suddenly fills or shakes. A very small puff of wind in a sail
is quite capable of throwing a man entirely out of the rigging if he is
sitting on the sail.
- Cadets should never get on the lee side of a sail while
working on the bowsprit.
- They also always use the weather shrouds when going, or
coming
down from, aloft. Either side may be used when the wind is fore and aft.
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