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--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 11 May 2008, 10:02 ---Anyway, to clarify for the incognoscenti, the stay is the line that holds a mast up.... 

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<pedantry>Stays and lines are both ropes. Stays hold up the mast(s). Lines hold up (and otherwise adjust) the sails. </pedantry>

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My bad.  My knowledge of sailing (far from encyclopedic) is based mostly on the works of Patrick O'Brian.  He discusses stays, preventer-stays, preventer-back-stays and more... but I don't recall any differentiation of lines.

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another O'Brian fan! be still my beating heart!
yeah it's a bummer he never got to finish the series but Aubry got the blue pennant (I think, its been a bit) and thats what matters right?

yeah I just go sailing with my Dad and try not to sit on all of the rigging at once.

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