No. The bridles are the longer ropes with the two eyes that attach to the sails at the toggles and are supported by the stay.
Thanks, Mike.
No thanks : this is wrong; the longer ropes are the lace lines,
the bridles are connecting them. This is what I gather, anyway,
from reading both Ashley's definition of "bridle" and various uses
of his, and others, such as Biddlecombe's
The Art of Rigging .
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edit : this (#1) note of my confusion is answered below; thanks, Vladimir!]
1) NB: of the
L&W on-line document, p.167 flows into 168 with
an apparent loss of text : "... yard-arm jiggers." has a full stop,
but p.168 apparently is a
continuation, "manila bridles, ...", from
text not presented here.
Can someone find the original book?
2) The
L&W DRAWING DIFFERS FROM ASHLEY'S !!
The former shows (a) NO seizing of the connecting lines (bridles),
and (b) they (bridles) are TWO PER CRINGLE/hole in joining lacelines.
Ashley, however, shows apparently ONE bridle terminated by toggles
--hence our confusion-- which is seized to the sail cringle.
.:. This allows that for
L&W each bridle is a short rope as described
with eye & toggle, and these are in PAIRS per hole, one reaching fore,
the other aft, to toggle the eyes of lace-line segments.
Frankly, in such a construction, I'd regard those segmented "lace lines"
--which we might observe do no actual *lacing* in the images--
as themselves bridles of a sort --short, and for connecting.
--dl*
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