Note 30 — AQUATIC EXERCISES
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The sail above the mainsail. The sheet hauls out to a small block on the outer end of the gaff.
[31] Tack is the lowermost corner opposite to the sheet, in all fore-and-aft sails and studding sails.
[32] The windward or weather side, is that side on which the wind blows.
[33] The rope by which the peak of the gaff or boom, to which the head of the mainsail is fastened, is hoisted. Halyards always signifies a rope by which a sail is hoisted.