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[logoman]

This is the first time I've rigged a boat, and so I don't know the correct terms.

This is the boat I'm rigging:



my question is this: the part at the fore that separates the two fore/aft lines is also rigged to the bridge, but the aft one is not rigged to any secondary place. Is this correct?

[pugwash]

Just a guess but any line that goes down to the area of the bridge may well be an HF aerial rather than a rigging wire
as I believe in these old ships the wireless office would be close to the bridge.  Some of our merchant navy experts should
keep you right.
Geoff

[Netleyned]

Geoff is correct
The HF Aerial was normally slung between the two masts with spreaders at each end and a feeder down to the wireless office normally abaft the Bridge

Ned

[logoman]

Thanks, this did not occur to me. I will use black cir for the aerial.