Fig. 107.]

(5). +Turk's Head+.--The Turk's Head is one of the most common of the
ornamental knots used at sea, and is formed from an ordinary clove
hitch (Fig. 108) made sufficiently slack to allow for the working of
the other parts.

[Illustration: Fig. 108.]

Having formed the clove hitch, pass _b_ over _c_ and tuck _a_ under and
up through the bight formed by _c_ as in Fig. 109. It will then be
found that there is another twist in {60} the parts _b_ and _c_, tuck
_a_ under _e_ and over _b_. Then go on as in Fig. 109, and put _b_
over _c_ again and tuck _a_ as before. The number of crossings
required depends principally on the size of the material on which the
Turk's Head is formed. To finish off as in Fig. 110, the part _a_ is
made to follow _d_ (Fig 108) round for three times.

[Illustration: Fig. 109.]

[Illustration: Fig. 110.]

(6). +Mousing a Hook+.--All hooks in running gear should be moused as
in Fig. 111.

[Illustration: Fig. 111.]

{61}

(7). +Securing Lead Line to Lead+.--The lead is fitted with a good
wire grommet parcelled over. The lead line should have a long eye
spliced in it, and is secured by passing the eye through the grommet
and over the lead (Fig. 112).

[Illustration: Fig. 112.]

(8). +Fitting a Flag+.--A toggle should be secured at the head of the
hoist by an eye splice; a length of rope equal to the width of the flag
left below the hoist, as this is the distance the flags should be
apart, and then a running eye splice made so as to be rapidly attached
to the next flag.

(9). +To Stick a Cringle+.--First unlay a single strand from {62} the
size of rope your cringle is required to be, whip both ends, reeve the
strand through the left hand eyelet hole in the sail, having one end
longer than the other--nearly a third--keeping the roping of the sail
towards you. If a thimble is to be put in the cringle, lay up the
parts of the strand together, counting three lays; commence with the
short end of the strand towards you, then reeve the long strand from
you through the right hand eyelet hole, taking it through the cringle,
and it will be in the right position to lay up in the vacant space left
in the cringle; when done, the one end will hang down inside the right
hand eyelet hole and the other end outside the left hand one; the ends
are then hitched by being rove through their respective eyelet holes
and passed over the leech rope and under their own part, one hitch
being