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Section 5, Sails
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Objective. Figure 5–1 Triangular Sails
Parts and types of sails running rigging and related gear: foot, luff, leech, roach, slot or coves, bolt rope, slide, shackle, head, clew, outhaul, tack, reef points, cringle, tabling, grommets, stem, storm jib, storm trysail, jib, genoa, light air sails, topping lift, gallows, spinnaker, miter-cut jib, cross-cut jib, spinnaker “snuffer” or “sock,” high-tech sail materials, jib roller furling/reefing systems, battens. Objective. Locate and name the parts of a sail. Figure 5–1 Triangular Sails
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Figure 5–2 Mainsail
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Figure 5–3 Headboard of a Mainsail.
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Figure 5–4 Sail Track Assembly
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Figure 5–5 Roped Sail in Mast or Boom Cove
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Figure 5–6 Mainsail Reinforcement (Tabling)
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Figure 4–7 Jib Sail Terminology
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Working Sails
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Genoa Jib
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Understand LP/J measurements and how jib size is classified.
Figure 5–8 Jib Profile
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Figure 5–9 Jib Roller Furling/Reefing System
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Figure 5–10 Roller Furling
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Figure 5–11 Spinnaker
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Figure 5–13 Storm Trysail and Storm Jib
Sails used in storm or heavy weather conditions.
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Figure 5-13 Sail Shapes Understand sail cut and how computers have been coupled with new materials in the design and manu
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Figure 5–14 Full Battened Cross-cut Mainsail
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Figure 5–15 Modern Cruising Genoa
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Vocabulary Boltrope. A rope sewn along the edge of a sail for reinforcement, to limit stretch, or to slide into a cove in the boom or mast to eliminate slides. Cove. A groove or slot built into the boom or after edge of a mast. Roach. The part of a sail that extends beyond a straight line from the head to the clew. Self-tending. A sail that will change position by itself during a tack or jibe.
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Supplemental Illustrations
Section 5, Sails Supplemental Illustrations
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Jib
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Roller Furling
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Roller Furling
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In mast main Sail roller furling
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Spinnaker Sock
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Full Batten Mainsail on Volvo Ocean Racer “Vivo” from Brazil
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Gaff rigged sail
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Details of a furled Gaff Rigged Sail
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Can you name the sails? What kind of rig is this?
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