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What is an afterguard?

What is an afterguard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails
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Hutchinson's relationship with helmsman Dean Barker appears to be blossoming with each event, to the point that a good level of trust and understanding now exists between the two stalwarts of the afterguard.
Grinders and bowmen are obviously rotated, but the core group in the afterguard has remained the same on both the Italian and the Kiwi boats.
The social gap between this afterguard and Rose and her colleagues in the chorus, was not so very wide, but it was abysmally deep.
I exclaimed, and, seizing a heavy block that one of the afterguard was fitting, I felled him to the deck.
Hinkel had fallen down on his job and the skipper was scared of me, and it was me that put that Dutchman out of the afterguard.
I was originally hired as a coach primarily for the afterguard, but also for the whole team.

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