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Baggywrinkle is a soft covering for cables (or any other obstructions) to reduce
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Baggywrinkle is a soft covering for cables (or any other obstructions) to reduce sail
A sail is a tensile structure—which is made from fabric or other membrane materials—that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles. Sails may ...
chafe. There are many points in the rig of a large sailing ship where the sails come into contact with the standing rigging; unprotected sails would soon develop holes at the points of contact. Baggywrinkle provides a softer wearing surface for the sail.
Baggywrinkle is made from short pieces of yarn cut from old lines that have been taken out of service. Two parallel lengths of marline are stretched between fixed points, and the lengths of yarn are attached using a hitch called a "railroad sennit
Sennit is a type of cordage made by plaiting strands of dried fibre or grass. It can be used ornamentally in crafts, like a kind of ''macramé'', or to make straw hats. Sennit is an important material in the cultures of Oceania, where it is use ...
". This creates a long, shaggy fringe which, when the marline is wound around a cable, becomes a large hairy cylinder.
References
* *See also
*Spreader patch A spreader patch is a fabric reinforcement at a point on a sail where it is likely to rub with the spreader on a mast.
Use and construction
Spreader patches may be placed on a jib, when it overlaps with the mast, or on the mainsail, where it ma ...
* Stanchion patch
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Sailing ship components
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