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SetSail.com - the serious cruising sailor's website (846 words) |
 | Reducing the size of the sails while sailing (to prevent the boat from becoming overpowered by an increase in wind strength) is a very straightforward concept: if you want a mainsail or a genoa to catch less wind, make it smaller. |
| Pulling in the clew of the sail: On DRIVER, the clew reefing lines lead to small winches (#6 Lewmars) that are mounted on each side of the boom. |
| DRIVER's 7 ounce, 120 percent reefable working jib is a power house (except when sailing dead to windward) and it fills a valuable niche in our sail inventory. |
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The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship (17338 words) |
| Quadrilateral sails are extended by yards, as the principal sails; by yards and booms, as studding-sails; a gaff, as mizen courses; or by a boom and gaff, as drivers, or boom-mainsails, of brigs, sloops, andc. |
| HOLES in sails are made with an instrument, called a stabber or a pegging-awl, and are fenced round by stitching the edge to a small grommet; such are the holes on the head of a sail for the rope-bands or laceing of square sails, and for seizings on sails that bend to hoops and hanks. |
| A triangular sail, bent at the foremost leech to a yard that hoists obliquely to the mast, and is connected with it, at one third the length of the yard. |
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