| And your Arthur, I mind, was one of the four men to go aloft to clew it up. |
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| It is mostly the way to man the clew-lines and the bunt-lines, ease off the lee-sheet and clew it up. |
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| The lower trailing corner 12 of the sail is known as the clew, and typically incorporates an eyelet, or a series of eyelets. |
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| A clew of the sail is fixed to the slide allowing the sail to be orientated without a need for a boom. |
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| The clever man took a clew of rope and suspended it by the door of entry so that it could serve as a guide to all who entered or came out. |
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| In searching for evidence of the presence of the murderer, not a clew of any kind could be found. |
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| If you intend to set them again after the topsail is reefed, clew the sail up. |
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| In this case, sweating and tailing the main course clew and buntlines. |
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| Note that when the sail is furled, the weight of the sail may cause the clew to move downwards. |
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| A good but currently illegal idea you can use to keep tension in the outhaul lines is to tie the clew inhaul shockcord between the clew cringle and the block. |
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| I will kind of clew up where I'm going and then we'll get into a back and forth. |
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| In most cases a genoa has a low clew, with the foot sweeping as close to the deck as possible. |
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| If clew cringles are used they must not be thicker than 14 mm in order to fit the outhaul block. |
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| The outer clew position provides more power and a more direct feeling, whilst the inner position gives more control and a softer sensation. |
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| The other end of the sheet is led through one of the jib clew blocks and then back down through the fairlead on the jib car. |
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| Thanks to the 2 clew eyelets you can vary the trim individually, using the upper eyelet for more performance and the lower for more control. |
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| Join the outhaul block to the clew of the sail. |
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| Generally, when the mainsail had to be taken in, it was not the heavy gaff that was lowered, but the sail was clewed up by means of the clew lines. |
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| A self-tailing winch is also recommended for the clew outhaul line. |
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| In the tradition of all great shaggy-dog stories, Hanif throws into the mix a few more potential sources of blame, including a clew of tapeworms and a mango-eating bird. |
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| In these cases, the sail's clew is lashed to the boom end-fitting. |
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| Locate the jib sheet line, the jib clew blocks and the clew shackle. |
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| Both these creatures, by forming themselves in a clew, have often more the appearance of excrescences in the bark, than that of animals. |
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| To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew. |
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| With this clew, let us endeavour to unravel this character of Herod as here given. |
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| The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of Continental politics, was in his hands. |
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| Now, the fact is, I had started because I thought I saw the end of a good clew. |
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| If light-handed, or the wind fresh, let go the bowline and ease off the tack, and haul up the weather clew. |
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| Single line systems work better with blocks in the reef tack and reef clew instead of standard grommets. |
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| Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him a clew to the trouble. |
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| Not often did Jesse James leave a clew to his identity when he galloped away from a crime of violence, back into the mysterious Nowhere whence he came. |
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