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Fife rail

Locations of fife rails on a 3-masted sailing ship.]]A fife rail surrounding a ship's mast will contain a series of [[belaying pin]]s corresponding to the ropes on the sails on that mast which they belay. A mast will either have a single horseshoe-shaped fife rail surround the base of the mast on the fore, starboard, and port sides, a single straight rail directly before or directly behind the mast, or a set of two fife rails, one on each side (fore and aft) of the mast.

Each sail associated with a given fife rail will have several corresponding belaying pins set into that rail.

Although a fife rail is a kind of pin rail, the term "pin rail" is often used to specifically denote those rails containing belaying pins that are attached to the hull. Unlike these, fife rails are freestanding.

References

Paasch, Heinrich. (1890). "The illustrated marine encyclopedia". The author.
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Taunt, Emory H.. (January 2010). "Young sailor's assistant in practical seamanship (1883)". Kessinger Publishing, LLC.

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