JIB
(jib)
A
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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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