Gaskets

Ropes employed to secure the square-sails to a yard, or the head-sails to the bowsprit and jib-booms, after the sails are furled. On some vessels the bowsprit is provided with stops made fast to small iron screw-eyes on the sides of the spar, and these take the place of a gasket, but gaskets are always used on jib-booms and on yards. On the latter they are named according to their location, as: bunt, quarter, and yardarm gaskets. Harbor gaskets are neatly made of platted stuff or of bands of canvas for use when the vessel is in port. Sea gaskets are the ordinary lengths of rope.