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What is an inhaul?

What is an inhaul? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A rope used to haul in the clew of a sail, or a jib boom
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If you pull the mainsheet, then you also pull the inhaul and if you ease the mainsheet then you also ease the inhaul.
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.
Watch how the inhaul pulls cloth out of the bottom leech which opens the bottom batten's flap angle.

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