Editing Running rigging (section)

==Square-rigged vessels==
[[File:Running Rigging-Square-rigged ship--Biddlecombe.jpg|thumb|300px|Diagram of running rigging on a square-rigged ship.<ref name = Biddlecombe />]]
[[File:Square rigged sail parts and running rigging.jpg|thumb|300px|Square sail edges and corners (top). Running rigging (bottom).]]
Square-rigged vessels require more controlling lines than fore-and-aft rigged ones.

===Supporting===
* [[Halyard]]s (sometimes haulyards) are used to raise and lower the yards.<ref name=HowardDoane/>
* [[Clewlines and buntlines|Buntlines]], spaced every few feet along the front of a sail, run from a point on the mast above the yard to the foot (bottom edge) of the sail and serve to raise the foot up for shortening sail or for furling.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* Lifts adjust the tilt of a yard, to raise or lower the ends off the horizontal.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* Leechlines run to the [[Parts of a sail#Edges|leech]] (outer vertical edges) of a sail and serve to pull the leech both in and up when furling.<ref name = Biddlecombe />

===Shaping===
* Bowlines run from the [[Parts of a sail#Edges|leech]] (outer vertical edges) of a sail forward (towards the bow) and are used to control the weather leech, keeping it taut and thus preventing it from curling back on itself. To extend its spread it was often attached to a bridle and thence to three or four bowline cringles set upon the leech.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* [[Clewlines and buntlines|Clewlines]] raise the [[Parts of a sail#Corners|clew]]s (bottom corners) of a square sail to the yard above, either to the outer ends of a yard or, more commonly, to near the middle of the yard, near (but not quite at) the mast. As the clewlines were hauled in, the sheets would be slacked off. This process would be reversed when setting sail.<ref name = Biddlecombe />

===Adjusting angle to the wind===
* [[Brace (sailing)|Braces]] are used to adjust the fore and aft angle of a [[yard (sailing)|yard]] (i.e. to rotate the yard laterally, fore and aft, around the mast).<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* [[Sheet (sailing)|Sheet]]s attach to the [[Parts of a sail#Corners|clew]]s (bottom corners) of a sail to control the sail's angle to the wind. Sheets run aft (for comparison, see tacks).<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* [[Tack (square sail)|Tack]]s are used to haul the clew of a loose-footed square sail (for example, a course) forward when sailing close to the wind. Tacks run forward (for comparison, see sheets).<ref name = Biddlecombe />