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 boom. But this clew outhaul should never be so fastened that it cannot be easily cast-off; for it should be tautened when one goes out sailing, and slackened up when one returns to one's moorings. If it is made a fixture, as is too often done, it becomes much too taut after a shower of rain has shrunk the sail and ropes, and is certain to pull the sail out of shape.

The in a cutter is the triangular sail set on the forestay; along the luff of the sail are attached at intervals hanks or iron hoops, which run up and down the forestay. It can be reefed down like the mainsail.

The is a triangular sail whose clew is hauled out on the bowsprit. It was the old fashion to have the cloths of this sail parallel with the leach. But a jib thus cut has a tendency to get very baggy, in which case it is always on the shake, and becomes ineffective when the vessel is close-hauled. On nearly all cutter yachts, what are known as angulated jibs are now used, in which half the cloths are parallel with the foot of the sail and the other