In addition the headsail pulled out of the groove in the forestay foil, damaging it and preventing a new sail from being hoisted.
32.
The two had battled neck-and-neck for months until Soldini broke a forestay a week ago and had to divert for repairs.
33.
The luff of the fractional zero will run from the tack to the top of the forestay on a boat that is a fractional rig.
34.
To the west, the area extends beyond the valleys of the Forestay on the hill of Le Signal at up to above sea level.
35.
There was a little bit of tension on the brace and the ( spinnaker pole ) broke across the forestay because the brace was under load.
36.
The asymmetric has two gybe since it only requires releasing one sheet and pulling in the other one, passing the sail in front of the forestay.
37.
For headsails, he had added a roller-furling genoa and installed an inner forestay off which he can set a smaller, Solent-style jib.
38.
When they tried to hoist a new headsail, it blew out as well, apparently because the track that attaches the jib to the forestay was broken.
39.
When the sail was retrieved and a second headsail raised, it also tore away from the forestay because the track on which the sail is hoisted had broken.
40.
The forestay is shown as passing over a small fork above the yardarm, which supports a square sail : a branch is tied to the mast-top.
