boom. But this clew outhaul should never be so fastened that it cannot be easily cast-off; for it should be tautened when one goes out sailing, and slackened up when one returns to one's moorings. If it is made a fixture, as is too often done, it becomes much too taut after a shower of rain has shrunk the sail and ropes, and is certain to pull the sail out of shape.
The Foresail in a cutter is the triangular sail set on the forestay; along the luff of the sail are attached at intervals hanks or iron hoops, which run up and down the forestay. It can be reefed down like the mainsail.
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Fig. 58.—Jib.
The Jib is a triangular sail whose clew is hauled out on the bowsprit. It was the old fashion to have the cloths of this sail parallel with the leach. But a jib thus cut has a tendency to get very baggy, in which case it is always on the shake, and becomes ineffective when the vessel is close-hauled. On nearly all cutter yachts, what are known as angulated jibs are now used, in which half the cloths are parallel with the foot of the sail and the other
