The jib is marked out in the same manner, and, as illustrated, the lines representing the positions of the batten sleeves are drawn.
The jib-topsail should not be used in a case like this, and if the wind is fairly strong a smaller jib should be set than that used for reaching.
A strip of narrow tape is sewn across the foot of the jib-sail to take the strain of the pull, the part of the jib contained by the curve of the foot and the tape being known as the bonnet of the jib.
For instance, there is the jib halyard and the foresail halyard.
The more the yachtsman slackens out his jib and foresail, or the smaller he makes these sails, the less their power will be to turn the boat in the direction B.
The jib is fitted to the cab by means of a wire passed through the sides, and two guy-ropes are arranged as shown.
A misted sun rose in the north and east, directly before the taper jib boom of the Pole Star.
The jib boom swung off toward a lower shelf of ice, and the crash that followed as the stout sheathing cut through the floes drove the Russians to their knees.
They came into view again and stood upon a shelf which was directly over the taper jib boom of the ship.
The engines raced in reverse, and the Pole Star swung with her dainty jib boom groping through the fog like an antenna.
The taper jib boom pointed down the narrow strait and sheered in time to meet the first rollers of the Gulf of Anadir.
The moon showed as a silver disk directly over the frosted jib boom, and the sun had been blotted from the view.
She pointed over the taper jib boom of the Pole Star.
A dark slab of muck tuck, or blubber, was dangling from her stumpy jib boom.
The taper jib boom swung toward the open lane to the north and east and ice floes ground under the stem.
Half an hour later there came a great sound of tearing like the volley of small arms, and the Lass's balloon jib ripped loose and soared to heaven like some gigantic wounded bird.
The windlass grunted and whined as the schooner came up on her hawser with a thump, and overhead a useless jib slatted and rattled.
I'll have the balloon jib and stays'l set in five minutes, if you say so.
He had hardly uttered them when down came the great balloon jib of the Nettie B.
Like Code, the first thing Nat did, when his schooner had come up into the wind with jib and foresail on the run, was to take a dory ashore.
Set balloonjib and stays'l and we'll give 'em a try-out.
But before crossing to Belgium I had a day at Dover, where I bought some stuff and had a jib made for the boat by deft and fair fingers, had paddled the Rob Roy on the green waves which toss about off the pier-head most delectably.
Lug sail, jib, and spare jib (used as a sun shawl).
Captain Nickerson, "and when she pays off, give her the jib an' hang on to yer weathersheet!
On deck, everything was double-lashed for heavy weather; the foretopmast had been sent down, and the balloon jib and foretopsail rolled up and stowed away in the sail locker.
Call the boys and we'll get the jib in the tricing jacket and the mains'l reefed before it hits us.
He was seldom aboard the ship, and spent most of his time ashore "sun-fishing" around bowling alleys and billiard parlors with young loafers of a similar cut of jib to himself.
Man the jib, and flying jib halyards, and downhauls!
The jib and foresail, and a portion of the standing and running rigging, had been saved, and the Belgian and the Dutchman made a computation of the cost of labor and material.
The hands "walked away" with the downhaul, and the jib was on the bowsprit in an instant.
A jib and foresail were bent upon it, and the "Wel tevreeden" was in condition to make a harbor.
