| 11. | We let the mainsheets go and immediately depowered the boat, and then called the marine rescue control center.
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| 12. | Sometime around 1974, the basic Crosby mainsheet rig of the boat was changed to mid-boom sheeting.
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| 13. | Mainsheet trimmer Andreas Josenhans and port trimmer Grant Spanhake came over from America3, which won the Cup in 1992.
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| 14. | So Tom had his hand-bearing compass on top of the mainsheet winch trying to tell us what was going on.
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| 15. | The preventer with the most mechanical advantage is a line, from the end of the boom, led outside the mainsheet.
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| 16. | Although the Topper was originally rigged with an aft mainsheet, since 2004 the option to use a centre main has been allowed.
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| 17. | Control lines for the backstay, and mainsheet fine tune are led under the deck to a central, raised mainsheet control station.
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| 18. | Control lines for the backstay, and mainsheet fine tune are led under the deck to a central, raised mainsheet control station.
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| 19. | Lines that are attached to sails to control their shapes are called " sheets ", as in " mainsheet ".
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| 20. | Three sail shape controls which control the leech tension, and therefore sail twist, are the mainsheet, the boom vang and the traveler.
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