towards you and the other from you; then take the ends down under
one strand on the right and two on the left of cringle nearest to it;
then tuck the ends under the first two strands nearest the hitch,
heaving them well in place; the cringle is then fidded out, and the
thimble is put in on the fore part of the sail. The ends of the strand
are then tucked back, left-handed, under one strand, again under two,
right-handed, as in the first place, heaving them taut in place {63} at
each tuck, the ends are then whipped with two of their own yarns and
cut off. If a large cringle is needed, count an extra number of
lays--5, 7, etc., always an odd number.

(10). +To Finish a Cringle off on the Crown+.--Commence as before, but
after laying up the strand, instead of forming a hitch with each end,
the ends are rove through their respective eyelet holes and tucked back
under two strands of the cringles and again laid up as far as the
crown, forming a four-stranded cringle, and finished off by tucking the
ends under two strands and crossing them under the crown of the cringle
and cut close off.

[Illustration: Fig. 113. Fig. 114.]

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In working a cringle in a piece of rope the only difference is there
are no eyelet holes, therefore the strand is tucked under two strands
of the rope it is to be worked in.

(11). +To Lengthen a Rope of a Sail with a Single Strand+.--Say it is
necessary to give a sail one cloth more spread, it would then be
necessary to lengthen the head and foot rope. Supposing the width of
cloth to be 2 feet and the size of the rope 3 in. After ripping the
rope off four cloths, first of all cut the strand at the distance 2 ft.
6 in. from each other as in Fig. 115.

[Illustration: Fig. 115.]

Cut one of the strands at _a_ and unlay it to _c_, then cut one of the
strands remaining at _c_ and unlay it to _b_, laying the strand _a_ up
again as far as _b_; then cut the only remaining strand at _b_, which
will be the centre, when your rope will be in two parts. By following
the plan the wrong strand cannot possibly be cut. The rope will now
appear as in Fig. 116.

[Illustration: Fig. 116.]

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Now marry the long end _a_ to the end _b_, then lay up the long strand
_c_ in the lays of the strand _a_, and marry it to the other strand _b_
as in Fig. 117.

[Illustration: Fig. 117.]

Take a strand about 10 ft. in length of the same size rope and marry
one end to the short strand _a_ as shown abov