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 resistance to the wind; or again, the sail can be brailed up in a moment to the mast with the brailing-lines—you will see them on every Thames spritsail barge—these lead through blocks on the mast or on the mast-hoops, pass through eyelets in the leach of the sail, and so go right round the sail. On hauling on these lines the sail is snugly furled up along the mast—the most rapid imaginable way of relieving a craft of her canvas until a squall has passed by.

The or  sail, like that represented in Fig. 46, is in some respects the