The running gear comprises ropes required in trimming the sails. The main items of running gear are the lifts for the fore, main and mizzen courses, the braces which are needed to set the yards at the requisite angle relative to the direction of the wind, the sheets which are bent (fastened) to the clew (bottom corner) of the sails and thence carried down to the deck. Then there are the clewlines (“clewgarnets” in the case of the foresail, mainsail and cro’jack) which stretch from the clew back to the yard close to the mast and finally to the deck.