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The Astus 16.1 is equipped with a dacron furling jib and dacron mainsail as standard. The mainsail is fully battened and has one reef as standard, and a second reef can be specified as a factory option. The jib comes quite low on deck and can obscure forward visibility. A clear PVC window in the jib is available as a factory option.
Accordingly, it is preferable to fly a separate, smaller jib—the solent—instead. On a sloop, there is a single forestay that runs from the top of the mast forward to the prow, and in addition to bracing the mast it provides a firm support to which a jib can be attached. When this forestay is covered with a roller-furling jib, which cannot ...
A simple home-built jib furler, showing the furling line ready to furl the jib, and (inset) showing the furled jib This staysail schooner's large genoa has been roller-furled away, while its staysails are hanked on. Roller furling is a method of furling (i.e. reefing) a yacht's staysail by rolling the sail around a stay.
Location of Singapore Singapore is a sovereign island country in maritime Southeast Asia. A global city, it has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade and more recently as a financial hub as well. Its economy is known as the most freest, most innovative, most competitive, most dynamic and most business-friendly in the world by various multinational ...
A jib, left, compared to a roughly 110% genoa, right. The foretriangle is outlined in red. The term jib is the generic term for any of an assortment of headsails.The term genoa (or genny) refers to a type of jib that is larger than 100% of the foretriangle, which is the triangular area formed by the point at which the stay intersects the mast, and deck or bowsprit, and the line where the mast ...
A level-luffing crane is a crane mechanism where the hook remains at the same level while luffing: moving the jib up and down, so as to move the hook inwards and outwards relative to the base. [1] Usually the description is only applied to those with a luffing jib that have some additional mechanism applied to keep the hook level when luffing.
Jib of jibs; Spindle jib; Flying jib; Outer jib; Inner jib; Fore staysail. [3] [4] The first two were rarely used except by clipper ships in light winds and were usually set flying. [3] [4] A storm jib was a small jib of heavy canvas set to a stay to help to control the ship in bad weather. [3]
Until 1985, subscribers' telephone numbers in Singapore were five and six digits. Five digits were introduced in 1960s, whereas 5-digit and 6-digit phone numbers were introduced in 1960s as fixed lines grew, but in that year, these changed to seven digits as the introduction of new towns arose (Tampines, Jurong East, Bukit Batok, Yishun and Hougang) and a large number of new numbers were required.