When it is necessary to take the sail off the boat entirely, it is first rolled down as far as it will go, the peak remaining set (as shown by the dotted outline in Fig. 143) ; the line F is then cast off from its cleat, and the yards drop on to the boom in the bight of the topping lift. The sail is then made up by being lashed round with the tyers P, the tackle on deck is unhooked from the eye E, the block B is slid out of its catches, the mast unshipped, sheet untoggled, and everything can be stowed below, ready to be reset at three minutes' notice.
Mr. Tredwen says : " All this rigging may appear very complicated ; but when it has once been fitted there is far less trouble in working the sails than when they are rigged in the more primitive fashion." The roller wizen is suited for sails of from 30 to 40 square feet. The Pearl and Lurline both race with sails of this kind, 6ft. in the luff and 6ft in the foot, giving an area of about thirty-six square feet fully set.
A spinnaker ought to be set without the canoeist leaving his seat and Mr. Tredwen's plan to achieve this is as follows : The material shoull be fine in texture, so as to hold a minimum of water, dry rapidly, an stow away in a small compass when not set. The Pearl's cruising spin naker is as follows : foot, Eft. ; hoist, 7ft. by 9ft. Sin. The edges ai bound round with light tape. To each caller is attached a swivel prevent any twisting of the sail, and the halyard and tack both fast( on by clip-hooks. When the sail is not set the spinnaker halyal is hooked to the thimble on the main boom, through which the toppii lifts lead, and the other end is led through an eye-bolt on deck witb easy reach of the hand. The tack leads through an eye-bolt in t
deck, about a foot from the fore side of the mast, and both ends a made fast to an eye in the side deck within reach of the hand. T sail when stowed away is rolled up, the three corners outside in readini for the halyard and tack to be hooked on. The spinnaker boom of t Pearl is 10ft. long, made with a fishing-rod joint in the centre for c< venience of stowage. The outer end has a hook (see Fig. 145), alm a complete circle, which travels out along the sheet to the corner of sail as the sheet is hauled taut. The inner end of the boom is fit with a brass boathook head, which hooks on to a loop of cord spli to an eye on the lee-half deck. If the mainsail gybes on to the spinal the inner end of the boom is unhooked from this loop, the sheei allowed to slip clear of the hook in the outer end, and is passed aro' the mast by means of the boathook, and hauled in on the other The sheet is then again slipped into the hook on the boom end, wl is run forward till it reaches the corner of the sail. The boathook end is then looped down to the deck, and the sheet hauled aft till the sail is set to the best advantage.
When the wind hauls more abeam, the spinnaker can be made to sit well by means of a guy made fast to the boom, and led through an eye on the weather gunwale to a cleat aft and, being bowled down taut, prevents the boom from lifting.
In the Pearl, when before the wind, the spinnaker is always pulled up and hauled down on the starboard side, and there is no difficulty in booming it out on either side as the mainsail is gybed. This sail is indispensable in racing.