. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. e boom, close-reef it, and set it with a luff-tackle fora sheet. When about to set the stormtrysail and your vessel is yawl rigged,set the storm mizzen. It will keep herhead up to the sea while the sails arebeing shifted. In a cutter, heave to byhauling the fore sheet to windward,keeping the jib full. Shifting jibs inheavy weather in a cutter requires first thing to do is to get the sailup from below and stretch it alongthe weather side of the forward deckwith the head aft. Haul the foresheetto windward and trim the mainsheet inflat, tricing up
. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. e boom, close-reef it, and set it with a luff-tackle fora sheet. When about to set the stormtrysail and your vessel is yawl rigged,set the storm mizzen. It will keep herhead up to the sea while the sails arebeing shifted. In a cutter, heave to byhauling the fore sheet to windward,keeping the jib full. Shifting jibs inheavy weather in a cutter requires first thing to do is to get the sailup from below and stretch it alongthe weather side of the forward deckwith the head aft. Haul the foresheetto windward and trim the mainsheet inflat, tricing up the tack if the sail isloose-footed. Keep the boat as closeto the wind as possible. Let go thejib outhaul, and the sail will fly in alongthe bowsprit. Muzzle it, man the down-haul, let go the halyards and down withit ! Then reef the bowsprit. Somecutters are fitted with a rack and pin-ion wheel, with a handle like that of awinch, for this purpose. If not suppliedwith this handy contrivance, reeve aheel rope, and after slacking the bob-. RIGGING AND SAILS. 161 stay fall and the fallsof the shrouds andtopmast stay, heaveon it until you canknock the fid rouse the bow-sprit in by the shroudtackles to the secondor third fid holes, asdesired ; ship the fidand set up the gear,beginning with the -horse for mainbobstay, the weathershroud next and the lee shroud last,at the same time taking in the slackof the topmast stay. Now to set thejib. First hook on the sheets andtake a turn with the lee one; nexthook on the tack to the traveler andthe halyards to the head. Man theouthaul and bowse the tack out to thebowsprit end. Hoist up on the hal-yards and sweat up with the the sheet, let draw the foresheet,ease off the mainsheet and sail her alongagain. If these instructions are carriedout a storm jib may be set on a reefedbowsprit without parting a rope yarn. To shake a reef out in the mainsail,set up on the topping lift so that it maytake the weight of the boom. Untie
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