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I used the concept of the sailing boat rig with foresail and mainsail in the 70's as a very slow flying hang glider.
When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side.
The Sparlin, crewed by two Spaniards, was found to have damaged rigging and was using foresail and engine.
It's the one the sheet is attached to on a foresail, and the one the outhaul is attached to on the main.
A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
When there is a distinct wind shift it is also easier to change course than to change the foresail.
Other ships on the high-seas in the late 1700's and up to the end of the 1800's were the sloop, a single masted ship that could carry a mainsail, topsail and foresail.
Self-tacking foresails must be fixed in place otherwise the foresail will not back.
A masthead rigged yacht has relatively larger loads in the foresail than a fractionally rigged yacht.
Whilst a crew member keeps the genoa taut with its sheet to avoid it flogging, another one rolls up the foresail.
By extending her by one metre up forward and two metres aft, Commodore Explorer reached 26 metres in length and increased the foresail area.
As we headed for the regatta zone, the crew fell silent and unfurled the mainsail, foresail and jib.
The key is to choose the foresail carefully and to adapt the total sail area according to the breeze by reefing up or down.
When finally we were roused, we emerged to find both the foresail and staysail packed away.
Philou raises the foresail to get us out of the bottleneck between Tahiti and Moorea.
Thomas says the team also managed to sneakily promote New Zealand by placing the name on the boat's foresail, in clear breach of rules forbidding corporate logos.
At the moment I have eighteen knots of wind and am reaching speeds of around 10 or 11 knots,ยป explained Marc Guillemot, who was certainly far from angry about not having to change his foresail during the night.
Soon after, the foresail was reefed, and we mizen-top men were sent up to take another reef in the mizen topsail.
The foresail backs in this position and as soon as the clinometer registers heel to the other side the autopilot puts the rudder hard-over again, leaving the boat stationary from drift.
A foresail with a rope luff could also be hoisted.
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Captain Truck now ordered the foresail, which, by this time was ready, to be set.
The foresail was torn and half-lowered, and the gaff at its head was jambed.
Light as was the breeze, the vessel spread no canvas to it beyond that of her foresail.
The sailors have just raised the small foresail preparatory to beaching the ship.
In old times the boats simply carried mainsail, foresail, and forestaysail and jib.
So did we, and, further, ran a line from the cringle in her foresail to the weather rigging.
We kept the foresail and the jib set, and jogged on, doubling amid the ice.
The mainsail was set to a chorus like the crying of sea fowl and the foresail and jib.
The foresail was brailed, and the foot stopped, and the flying-jib was stowed.
The Lady Nepean hurled her old timbers along under close-reefed maintopsail, and a rag of a foresail only.
The foresail and fore-topsail we managed to save, but all our light canvass went.
The fore-topsail had been mended as well as the foresail, and was set anew.
I shouted, and had the sense to hoist the reefed foresail at once.
The ends of the sprit in the foresail project at the luff and leach.
The captain got his glass, and climbed up to the gaff of the foresail.
The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.
Lower down that foresail, you swab, lower down that foresail!
We had been under lower-topsails and a reefed foresail all night.
For instance, there is the jib halyard and the foresail halyard.
An' see that big one with a patch in her foresail an' a new jib?
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