Editing Sailing ship (section)

==== Setting sail ====
A sailing ship crew manages the running rigging of each square sail. Each sail has two sheets that control its lower corners, two braces that control the angle of the yard, two clewlines, four buntlines and two reef tackles. All these lines must be manned as the sail is deployed and the yard raised. They use a halyard to raise each yard and its sail; then they pull or ease the braces to set the angle of the yard across the vessel; they pull on sheets to haul lower corners of the sail, ''clews'', out to yard below. Under way, the crew manages ''reef tackles'', ''haul leeches'', ''reef points'', to manage the size and angle of the sail; ''bowlines'' pull the leading edge of the sail (''leech'') taut when close hauled. When furling the sail, the crew uses ''clewlines'', haul up the clews and ''buntlines'' to haul up the middle of sail up; when lowered, ''lifts'' support each yard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oceannavigator.com/May-June-2014/Square-sail-handling/|title=Square sail handling – Ocean Navigator – May/June 2014|last=Queeney|first=Tim|date=April 25, 2014|website=www.oceannavigator.com|access-date=2019-06-23|archive-date=2019-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623131732/http://www.oceannavigator.com/May-June-2014/Square-sail-handling/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In strong winds, the crew is directed to reduce the number of sails or, alternatively, the amount of each given sail that is presented to the wind by a process called ''reefing''. To pull the sail up, seamen on the yardarm pull on ''reef tackles'', attached to ''reef cringles'', to pull the sail up and secure it with lines, called ''reef points''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nh0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT178|title=The Language of Sailing|last=Mayne|first=Richard|date=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135965655|location=New York|pages=reef|language=en|access-date=2019-06-24|archive-date=2023-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027233636/https://books.google.com/books?id=3nh0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT178#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Dana spoke of the hardships of sail handling during high wind and rain or with ice covering the ship and its rigging.<ref name=":3" />