Then, becoming aware of the uncut jib halyard, she cut it.

He showed the vaquero the main and jib halyards.

Rake and sideways bend are further variable via the jib halyard.

I The height measured along the front of mast from the jib halyard to the deck.

Radiating anger, Emien stamped forward to find the jib halyard.

Using the loose jib halyard, I tied the guard to the side of the ship, ensuring that he wouldn't go under anymore.

"Ready on the jib halyards, sir," one of the foredeck crew gulped.

Rossi, let the jib halyard run!'

America True is 1-2, its victory coming Monday when America One broke its jib halyard with a big lead.

Shortly after rounding the mark, its jib halyard broke and the jib tore free from the headsail track in the gusting wind.

By now the sky was lightening, and down in the cuddy they heard the jib halyard squeaking through the block, and then the rope slatted against the mast.

The Albacore's rig uses swept spreaders supporting a tapered mast, a powerful vang, and adjustable jib halyard and other sail controls to depower in high winds.

It is convention in some places to fasten the main halyard (for the mainsail) on the starboard side of the mast and the jib halyard to the port side.

The wire-rope jib halyard was corroded onto the reel winch, and when I finally was able to force it off, I motioned to John to pull the sail down.

Pausing long enough to let go the jib halyards, and just as the Reindeer cleared and began to drift astern, I leaped aboard the junk with a line and made fast.

Releasing it from its fastenings, she assaulted the ropes that held the fallen mast, cutting them all except the jib halyard, somehow not going overboard herself, despite the sloop's wallowing, and no hand to hold on with.

One of the uses for this shackle include attaching the jib halyard block to the mast, or the jib halyard to the sail, to reduce twist on the luff and allow the sail to set better.

For the foresail, depending on the rig, twist is controlled by adjusting jib leech tension through sheet tension adjustments of: sheet angle with sheet block track (fair lead) position, jib halyard tension, jib Cunningham tension, or forestay tension.