How To Use Headsail In A Sentence
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The 31 was offered as a sloop or with a double headsail arrangement commonly called a cutter.
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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.
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When a mainsail was set up in the correct place abaft the genoa, the strain on the headsail sheet was observed to rise considerably.
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She is cutter rigged with a large foretriangle to allow plenty of room for both headsails.
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However, headsails are large and a good furling system and large self-tailing winches are a must.
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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....”
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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.
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Early on, the wind filled to 18 knots and the yachts were forced to reef their mainsails and change headsails under difficult conditions.
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Early on, the wind filled to 18 knots and the yachts were forced to reef their mainsails and change headsails under difficult conditions.
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They have changed their racing headsail for a new roller-furling gib, refitting the furling gear that came with the yacht.
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An attempt was made to furl the headsail.
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Her headsails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom - tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
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Initially the 35.5 is quite tender and quick to heel, so it is important not to overpower the boat with large headsails.
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This afternoon I kept busy on deck working out the easiest way to pole the headsail (using the spinnaker pole to hold the headsail right out) to make sailing downwind (with the wind right behind us) more comfortable.
True Spirit
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A larger headsail and cruising spinnaker are nice to have for beam reaching and running in light air but many owners find the mainsail and 120% jib work just fine.
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For the final time, the crew took the spinnaker down and raised the headsail - without a hitch.
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But I realize twin headstays are not satisfactory, since when used for only one headsail the stay will sag and cause the luff to be too loose.
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In Shannon's ‘Scutter’ rig, the inner of the two headstays carries a 140-percent genoa on a furler, and this is the headsail you use in lower to medium wind ranges.
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A larger headsail and cruising spinnaker are nice to have for beam reaching and running in light air but many owners find the mainsail and 120% jib work just fine.
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That theory would explain the torn headsail - the only damage to the catamaran.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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A key to his victory eight years ago was the innovative giant headsail that gave EF Language a significant advantage over the rest of the fleet in the initial stages.
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For most coastal cruising conditions the sloop would be the preferred rig on this size boat but, perhaps for aesthetic reasons, most were rigged with the double headsail arrangement.
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Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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We unfurl the headsail and streak across the World Sailing Speed Record Council's start line 42 seconds after the stroke of midnight.