| 31. | Roller furling refers to systems that furl a headsail by rolling it around the forestay, or around its own luff wire.
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| 32. | These generally consist of either a plastic pipe or a specially stiffened jib, and a spool to hold the furling line.
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| 33. | It has an extended cockpit for group learning sessions and is equipped with roller furling, self-tailing winches and twin rudders.
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| 34. | Spinnakers for cruising boats are starting to be patterned after the roller furling code 0 racing spinnakers, as they provide the easiest handling.
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| 35. | Murray Scheiner, a sailor and professional rigging designer from Great Neck, New York, modernized the furling jib in the late 1960s.
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| 36. | The simplest boom furling system consists of a boom that can rotate along its axis, with a latch to lock it in place.
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| 37. | Mainsail furling systems have become increasingly popular on cruising yachts, as they can be operated shorthanded and from the cockpit, in most cases.
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| 38. | A few PRI supporters walked dejectedly across its vast empty expanse, furling their PRI banners into tight rolls as they walked out to the street.
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| 39. | With loose-footed, gaff-rigged mainsails and roller-furling genoas, the boats were fast, stable, and easy to sail.
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| 40. | This is particularly true when sailors do not want to use roller furling, e . g ., because they do not want to compromise speed.
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