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Thread: I haven't got a clew.....

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    Default I haven't got a clew.....

    I know the parts of my marconi main: the sides are bottom-foot, front-luff and back-leech. The corners: head, tack and clew....so far so good.

    Now I'm learning that on a gaff sail the fourth side, the one attached to the gaff, is called the head......

    So, what do we call the corner between the head and the leech?
    Says the guy who not only wants to build his own boat, now he wants to DESIGN it first. Nurse? We need some meds here!

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    Default Re: I haven't got a clew.....

    throat?

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    Default Re: I haven't got a clew.....

    Peak, see also throat.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaff_rig
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    Default Re: I haven't got a clew.....

    Peak. Throat is the gaff -mast intersect.

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    Default Re: I haven't got a clew.....

    Last edited by Thorne; 02-04-2008 at 04:21 PM.
    "The enemies of reason have a certain blind look."
    Doctor Jacquin to Lieutenant D'Hubert, in Ridley Scott's first major film _The Duellists_.

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    Default Re: I haven't got a clew.....

    Peak it shall be. Thank you.
    Says the guy who not only wants to build his own boat, now he wants to DESIGN it first. Nurse? We need some meds here!

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