jackstay

This may also be referred to as a jackstay.

Care must be taken to always shift the movable jackstay in the same direction.

Denny got into the harness, clipped onto a jackstay, and worked his way forward.

There are various techniques for performing a jackstay search.

Running up the jackstay would be a big block, and from that would hang the gun.

Now it would ride up the jackstay with a gun slung underneath it.

A jackstay is a line laid along the bottom to guide the diver during a search or to and from the workplace.

Hesaw that Lacey and his men had already rigged the jackstay.

The divers then repeat this process until they find the object or run out of fixed jackstay, time or air.

The method of attaching the movable jackstay should be easily adjustable, but reliable.

The search pattern corresponds closely to that of the Jackstay grid search.

Three men dragged the heavy voyol block and hung it on the jackstay.

The gun was ten feet high now, hanging horizontally and seemingly crawling up the jackstay like some strange animal.

I want to letgo of the jackstay and get clear of here by nightfall.

Slowly the sagging jackstay tautened, the men slowing down with the effort as the strain came on the anchor cables.

He pictured the jackstay with the weight of the gun running up it, suspended from the voyol block.

If the movable jackstay snags it should be freed by the divers as the pass the snag.

Southwick was busy on the foredeck, preparing everything for hoisting the jackstay tomorrow.

He looked upwards at the jackstay soaring aloft in a gentle curve, with the gun tackle sagging beneath it.

A lighter movable jackstay is used to connect the fixed jackstays at one end of the search area.

In February 1966 Operation Jackstay was conceived.

The cable forming the jackstay came down from the clifftop and led through a block shackled to the deck on the larboard side.

Aditya is also equipped with a 2 ton heavy jackstay and a 20 ton crane.

That would be the jackstay, secured at the top round the rocky outcrop, and at the bottom to the anchoredJuno.

The only way to do that, Ramage had calculated, was to use the tackle that would eventually haul the gun up the jackstay.