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JIB (jib)
A
triangular sail set ahead of the foremost mast
Common
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A
jib
is a triangular
staysail set ahead of the foremost mast of a sailing boat. Its
tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bow, or to the deck between
the bowsprit and the foremost mast.
A
jib
is a triangular
staysail set ahead of the foremost mast of a sailing boat. Its
tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bow, or to the deck between
the bowsprit and the foremost mast.
Jibs
and spinnakers are the two main types of headsails
on a modern yacht.
Confusingly,
any jib is technically a staysail,
but the inner jib of a yacht with two jibs is called the
staysail,
and the outer (foremost) the
jib.
This combination of two jibs is called a cutter
rig or
a yankee
pair.
A yacht with one mast rigged with two jibs and a mainsail is
called a cutter.
A
fully rigged schooner has three jibs. The foremost one sets on
the topmast forestay and is called the jib
topsail,
a second on the main forestay is called the
jib,
and the innermost is called the
staysail.
All three sails are both jibs and staysails in the generic sense.
On
yachts with only one jib, it is common for the clew of the jib to
be further aft than the mast, meaning the jib and mainsail
overlap. An overlapping jib is called a genoa
jib or
simply a genoa.
On
cruising yachts, it is common for the innermost jib to be
self-tacking, either by using a boom along the foot of the sail,
or by cleating the sheet to a track, or both. On other cruising
yachts, and nearly all racing sailboats, the jib need to be
worked when tacking. On these yachts, there are two sheets
attached to the clew of the jib. As the yacht comes head to wind
during a tack, the active sheet is released, and the the other
sheet (the lazy
sheet)
on the other side of the yacht is pulled in. This sheet becomes
the new active
sheet until
the next tack.
The
word 'jib' exists in most English-speakers' vocabularies only in
the idiom 'to like the cut of one's jib', meaning 'to like (of a
person)'.
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It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Jib".
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