Thank you for your replies.

Stephen R.

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
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It seems to refer to the practice of cutting old, but still usable,
bedsheets down the centre and re-joining them at what had been the outer
edges, so moving the worn area to the edge and extending their life. I
guess it could refer to a similar practice with some running rigging which
tends to have uneven wear. See, for instance:
http://www.concordheritage.asn.au/chs-museum.htm
"... socks were darned and sheets "side-to-middled" rather than replaced."
However, it might just mean centred, or fastened at the cent
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/B_S_M/Fo...uction_II.html
"To Reeve Brails. They are each in one piece of rope, and when the sail is
bent and hoisted, the position for the brails is determined on ; they are
middled, and the bight of each brail seized to the after-leech of the
sails,
as marked, and rove through their respective blocks, from aft forward down
on deck."
Not that a brail is a sheet, of course.
http://www.charlescderokoinc.com/res.../wavertree.htm
"The jib and staysail sheets were secured to the clews of the sails with
two
wire pendants connected to bullet blocks through which the sheets are
rove.
It may be desirable to fashion the sheet pendants from one wire, middled
and
seized to a thimble, and then shackled to the clew;"
--
Jeff Richards

"Stephen R" no email @ no spam.com wrote in message
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What does a nautical instruction mean that says "the sheets are
middled"?

Thanks for your time.

Stephen R.