Jury rigging

In maritime transport and sailing, jury rigging or jury-rigging[1] is making temporary makeshift running repairs with only the tools and materials on board.

A sail-powered boat may carry a limited amount of repair materials, from which some form of jury-rig can be fashioned.

Additionally, anything salvageable, such as a spar or spinnaker pole, could be adapted to carry a makeshift sail.

However, due to their much larger size, at up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in diameter, the lower masts were too large to carry as spares.

Example jury-rig configurations include: The jury mast knot may provide anchor points for securing makeshift stays and shrouds to support a jury mast, although there is differing evidence of the knot's actual historical use.