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Virtually all racing boats today are sloop rigged, which means that they carry oneheadsailand a mainsail, both from the same mast.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They use a largeheadsailto increase sail area.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theheadsailfoil was damaged from the earlier collision.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mainsail may be smaller than theheadsail, which is then called a genoa jib.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Raising a spinnaker or poling out aheadsailto windward with a whisker pole can help.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a double-handed (two person) monohull sailboat with a sloop rig (oneheadsailone main sail).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A few scientists had initially hypothesized that this crest, which resembles an enormous antler, may have supported a skinheadsailused for stability in flight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A cutter may have more than oneheadsail, and a ketch, yawl or schooner may have more than one sail on a boom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On a racing or cruising yacht, a spanker is an additionalheadsailset beside and to leeward of a spinnaker when running downwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The overall effect of tensioning the running backstay is a shallower mainsail (less camber) combined with a reduction inheadsailsag.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A cutter (boat) also has a single mast, set further aft than a sloop and more than oneheadsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theheadsailcan be on a furler to reduce sail or furl away easily without the need to go onto the foredeck.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has twin fixed bilge keels, and a simple sail plan ofheadsailand mainsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many cruising sailors prefer to rig two tackles (port and starboard) that run from the midpoint of the boom to blocks on a track such as theheadsail-sheet-block track.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An alternative is the self tackingheadsail.
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