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When sailing dead down wind, it may be helpful to use adownhaulto reef larger sails.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sail is tuned by adjusting thedownhauland the outhaul.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With this configuration, complexity of sail control is elevated by the addition of dynamic outhaul,downhaul, and mainsheet traveller lines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A windsurfing sail is tensioned at two points: at the tack (bydownhaul), and at the clew (by outhaul).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In a windsurfing rig, thedownhaulis the primary load-bearing line which controls the sail's shape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It supports the sail directly at the tack and the clew, and holds the junk sail assembly down due to the tack line ordownhaul.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lower side of the sail is held in place by a separate set of ropes, the sheet and tackdownhaul.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cunningham differs from a typicaldownhaulin the way that it attaches to the sail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedownhaulis tensioned early in the rigging process and is generally not adjustable on the water, and is therefore rather different in use than the downhaul on a sailboat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Downhaulsetup offers 3:1 purchase.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The most commondownhaulon a modern sailboat is attached to the spinnaker pole, though this may be referred to as the foreguy in some rigging nomenclature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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