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This meant a traditional mainsail could be raised no higher than the first point a rope or wire was required to keep the mast upright. Further mainsail area (and height) was obtained by adopting a gaff rig. A mainsail may be fixed to the boom via slugs, cars, or a bolt-rope, or may be "loose-footed," meaning it is only attached at the tack and ...
Fractional rigs were introduced on race boats in order to allow more controllability of the surface of the mainsail and also less drag when sailing upwind. According to one manufacturer, "a key to making fast boats easier to sail than slow boats is the 'fractional rig'". [1]
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The overall effect of tensioning the running backstay is a shallower mainsail (less camber) combined with a reduction in headsail sag. If the running backstays lead to the mast where the forestay attaches, the effect of tensioning them is to reduce sag in the headsail, increase mast bend, and flatten the mainsail as a result.
The design has a fractional sloop rig with a square-topped mainsail, a bowsprit, two sets of swept spreaders, a carbon fibre two-piece mast and aluminum boom, with steel rod standing rigging. The hull has a plumb stem and transom , an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a carbon tiller and a fixed carbon fibre fin keel with a ...
The courses are given a name derived from the mast on which they are set, so the course on the foremast may be called the fore-course or the foresail; similarly main-course or mainsail for that carried on the mainmast. On the mizzen, a course is not usually carried. If it is, it is called the crossjack (or cro'jack) or mizzen sail.
The J/92 was designed by Rod Johnstone. It was introduced in 1992 by J/Boats who built 150 boats until 2003. [3]The displacement–length ratio is 132 [4] making it a light displacement boat.
A mainsail ("mains'l") is a sail attached to the main mast. The principal types include: A square-rig mainsail is a square sail attached at the bottom of the main mast. A Bermuda-rig mainsail is a triangular sail with the luff attached to the mast with the foot or lower edge generally attached to a boom.