Mainsail - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail...
Knockabout
A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger type is called a raceabout...
Mainsail
The principal sail in a ship or other vessel...
mainsheet
One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed...
Main yard
The yard on which the mainsail is extended supported by the mainmast...
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
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