Mast garden
A mast garden refers to nail banks built on a sailing ship in a square around a ship mast . The mast garden usually consists of four nail banks; more rarely there are three nail banks with an open side or a fourth side that is closed by another component of the ship (e.g. a structure of the ship).
A mast garden allows linen (to right on the mast base to secure evidence ). When the sails move around the mast, this hardly changes the distance between the upper and lower attachment points of the lines, and they are not in the way of the sails as they would if they were attached to the side of the ship. Mast gardens were mainly due to rahge takelten ships, due to the high number of lines used, used, sometimes in addition to cleats directly on the mast.
Gaff- rigged traditional sailors and modern yachts use less sails and therefore less lines. The few lines that are to be attached near the base of the mast are usually attached directly to the mast using cleats or individual mooring nails (without a nail bank), and more rarely directly to the tree . On modern, single-masted yachts, lines are now mostly diverted from the mast to the rear ( aft ) via discs at the base of the mast , where they can be operated from the cockpit . Mast gardens therefore practically no longer play a role on modern rigged ships.