RIDE AT ANCHOR. To lie at anchor. Also, to bend or bear down by main strength and weight; as, to _ride down_ the main tack. RIDERS. Interior timbers placed occasionally opposite the principal ones, to which they are bolted, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck. Also, casks forming the second tier in a vessel's hold. RIGGING. The general term for all the ropes of a vessel. (See RUNNING, STANDING.) Also, the common term for the shrouds with their ratlines; as, the _main rigging_, _mizzen rigging_, &c. RIGHT. To _right_ the helm, is to put it amidships. RIM. The edge of a top. RING. The iron ring at the upper end of an anchor, to which the cable is bent. RING-BOLT. An eye-bolt with a ring through the eye. (See EYE-BOLT.) RING-TAIL. A small sail, shaped like a jib, set abaft the spanker in light winds. ROACH. A curve in the foot of a square sail, by which the clews are brought below the middle of the foot. The _roach_ of a fore-and-aft sail is in its forward leech. ROAD, or ROADSTEAD. An anchorage at some distance from the shore. ROBANDS. (See ROPE-BANDS.) ROLLING TACKLE. Tackles used to steady the yards in a heavy sea. ROMBOWLINE. Condemned canvass, rope, &c. ROPE-BANDS, or ROBANDS. Small pieces of two or three yarn spunyarn or marline, used to confine the head of the sail to the yard or gaff. Rope-yarn. A thread of hemp, or other stuff, of which a rope is made. (See page 43.) ROUGH-TREE. An unfinished spar. ROUND IN. To haul in on a rope, especially a weather-brace. ROUND UP. To haul up on a tackle. ROUNDING. A service of rope, hove round a spar or larger rope. ROWLOCKS, or ROLLOCKS. Places cut in the gunwale of a boat for the oar to rest in while pulling. ROYAL. A light sail next above a topgallant sail. (See PLATE 2.) ROYAL YARD. The yard from which the royal is set. The fourth from the deck. (See PLATE 1.) RUBBER. A small instrument used to rub or flatten down the seams of a sail in sail-making. RUDDER. The machine by which a vessel or boat is steered. RUN. The after part of a vessel's bottom, which rises and narrows in approaching the stern-post. _By the run._ To let go _by the run_, is to let go altogether, instead of slacking off. RUNG-HEADS. The upper ends of the floor-timbers. RUNNER. A rope used to increase the power of a tackle. It is rove through a single block which you wish to bring down, and a tackle is hooked to each end, or to one end, the other being made fast. RUNNING RIGGING. The ropes that reeve through blocks, and are pulled and hauled, such as braces, halyards, &c.; in opposition to the _standing rigging_, the ends of which are securely seized, such as stays, shrouds, &c. (See page 43.) SADDLES. Pieces of wood hollowed out to fit on the yards to which they are nailed, having a hollow in the upper part for the boom to rest in. SAG. To _sag to leeward_, is to drift off bodily to leeward.