headstay

Running backstays support the headstay in a fractionally rigged boat.

The stay running forward from a mast to the bow is called the forestay or headstay.

Tighten the headstay, the backstay and the shrouds to even the rig tension.

The crew scrambled immediately to get sails down and stabilize the mast, which relies on the forward crossbeam for its headstay tension.

Extensively equipped, including stowaway mast/furling headstay, full electronics, delivered new to her present owner in 1986.

Stowaway mast/furling headstay.

The Kielmark jerked the glass to his eye in time to see a sharpened length of chain snag Morra's headstay.

"A water-kelpie, I reckon," said the sailor named Zedvinus, winking at his mate, while the two of them checked the headstay.

Through the formless darkness ahead, Jaric saw the gleam of a braided painter, then a high curving prow and the angled line of a headstay.

The boat is rigged as a simple fractional sloop, with minimal standing rigging, consisting only of two lower shrouds, two jumper shrouds, a headstay, and a backstay.

Her extensive equipment includes: Scheel keel, electrical winches, hydraulic rollerfurling mast, Reckman headstay and inner forestay rollerfurling.

Other typical upgrades would include a roller furling headstay to replace the original forestay, and upgraded instrumentation such as depth, speed, and wind gauges, which did not come standard on the original boats.

The Mad Prophet curled like a leaf against her headstay, croaking drunken ditties, his pudgy hands clasped around the whiskey crock he had nursed since his mishap with the vat in Garth's pond.

She is fully equipped with hydraulic stoway mast and headstay, electrical winches, B&G Hydra, SSB, radar, VHF, HIFI, etc.