The rig is supported by one set of upper side stays and one set of lower side stays, along with a forestay integrated into the roller furling jib.
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In race one 13 days ago the low-slung Kiwi sloop filled with water and then fractured at the boom and forestay, allowing Alinghi to post an easy victory.
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There is plenty of racing around the larboard side of the bow and clambering up the bowsprit, up along the spar, using a hand on the forestay for a guide.
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Most US boats have adjustable shrouds, forestay, and mast ram _ all of which allow the rig tension, rake, and bend of the mast to be changed during competition.
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The French team, without a win after seven races, almost lost its mast on the third leg of the race when its forestay broke and a winch ripped from the deck.
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The defenders first broke their lightweight carbon-fiber boom, tore out the ring that fixes their headsail to the deck then damaged the track that fixes the sail to the forestay.
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This sail may be a jib or a cutter rig, the jib or jibs are flown from stays in front of the forestay, perhaps going from the masthead to a bowsprit.
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Keryn McMaster and I were moving Bridget up the mast on a halyard at a pretty fast clip when Bridget's foot got caught at the point where the forestay joins the mast.
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Djuice was in sixth place and Amer Sports Too, which had to stay behind in Hobart to make repairs to first a broken forestay and then a rudder, is in seventh place.
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Minutes later and with the New Zealand boat taking on water, its headsail tore free of the forestay, the line running from the bow of the boat to the mast-top.
