How To Use headsail In A Sentence
- The 31 was offered as a sloop or with a double headsail arrangement commonly called a cutter.
- You have taken your roller furling headsail off, so you know everything works, and, if you have a roller furling main, you have taken it off too.
- When a mainsail was set up in the correct place abaft the genoa, the strain on the headsail sheet was observed to rise considerably.
- She is cutter rigged with a large foretriangle to allow plenty of room for both headsails.
- However, headsails are large and a good furling system and large self-tailing winches are a must.
- Just then, to the windward a full-rigged ship bears down on them, "the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily ... “Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
- These lessons proved to be vital, as we had to reef the mainsail (making it smaller) and change headsails later that evening under difficult conditions.
- Early on, the wind filled to 18 knots and the yachts were forced to reef their mainsails and change headsails under difficult conditions.
- Early on, the wind filled to 18 knots and the yachts were forced to reef their mainsails and change headsails under difficult conditions.
- They have changed their racing headsail for a new roller-furling gib, refitting the furling gear that came with the yacht.
