Editing Running rigging (section)

===Supporting===
* [[Halyard]]s (sometimes haulyards), are used to raise sails and control luff tension. In large yachts the halyard returns to the deck but in small racing dinghies the head of the sail is attached by a short line to the head of the mast while the boat is lying on its gunwale.<ref name=HowardDoane/>
* [[Topping lift]]s, which hold booms and yards aloft.<ref name=HowardDoane/>
* [[Brail]]s run from the [[Parts of a sail#Edges|leech]] of a fore-and-aft rigged sail (a [[Spanker (sail)|spanker]] or [[lateen]] mizzen, for example) to the gaff and mast and serve the same function as buntlines: to haul in the sail when furling. In this case, however, the action is more horizontal than vertical, hauling the sail forwards, toward the luff and a bit up, towards the gaff.<ref name = Biddlecombe>
{{cite book
 | last = Biddlecombe
 | first = George
 | title = The Art of Rigging: Containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships
 | publisher = Courier Corporation
 | series = Dover Maritime Series
 | date = 1990
 | location =
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/artrigging00steegoog/page/n173 155]
 | language =
 | url = https://archive.org/details/artrigging00steegoog
 | isbn = 9780486263434 }}</ref>