74 NICHOLLS'S SEAMANSHIP AND NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE
of arranging the tack. This is secured in a position close to the mast
instead of being hooked on to the weather bow or stemhead. Secure
the tack, hook the strop on the yard on to the traveller, and pass the
sheet aft. Sweat up on the halyards until the luff rope is well tight
and the yard topped up into the correct position. Hold the sheet in
the hand.
If the sail is fitted with a small tack tackle or lashing, it is much
better and more seamanlike to hoist the yard up to the required height
~firs% and bowse the tack down afterwards.
9. How would you go about with a standing lug?
Get good way on the boat, and ease the helm down. As she comes
up in the wind the sail will shake, and if there is not too much sea she
will come round head to wind and pay off on the other tack. As she
falls off, the sheet having been passed to leeward, I should tend it,
steady the helm, and shift my position across to the weathertside.
When going about under a standing lugsail if the boat is not carrying
a jib, the only things to be dealt with are the helm and the sheet.
If a jib is set, the sheet must be eased off at the same time that the
helm is put down, and the other one hauled aft as she fills on the other
. tack.
10. What would you do if, when you put the helm down, she came
up into the wind and then stopped, refusing to come right round?
Get an oar out and pull her round. The steering oar would be the
handiest, but the bow oar would also answer the purpose. The latter
would have to be "used on that side which was the lee side before putting
the helm down.
If the boat had a jib set, hauling the clew to windward would also
help in "boxing her off."
11. Wind aft. How/would you put a reef in a lugsail?
The method is the same for both "standing" and "dipping" lugs.
Lower the yard and sail right down, reeve the tack and sheet
tlxroTigh their proper reef cringles. This will leave the foot
of the sail free. Gather it up snugly, and tie the reef points tightly
round it. Set the sail again in the same way as if there was no reef in it.
12. Which rig do you prefer, the "dipping lug" err the "standing lug?"
Give your reason.
For sailing with the wind aft or well free, I prefer the dipping lug.
The sail spreads better than the standing one by reason of its tack