File:Rigging Mainstay.jpg

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Stylised image representing mainstay on a frigate of the early 19th century

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English: Highlights the mainstay (stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast) typically on pre-20th-century sailing ships.
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The original was a diagram in Encyclipaedia Britannica 1911. I copied this one from File:Rigging1.png produced by Ray Van De Walker. I edited it and used it for an illustration of "mainstay" in Wiktionary. For the full legend, see the Rigging1.png file.

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