Posted by PeterH on December 09, 2006 at 13:36:07 from 86.130.120.104 user Peter_H.
I'm sure the TarBoard watermen can help with this one. I have just been reading 'Jibbooms and Bobstays' (the Nancy Blackett Trust mag - always a good read). There is an obituary of Terry Absalom - for some reason I did not hear about his death in August, and I am very sad to hear of it now. Terry has left a bequest to the Trust, with a wish that it be used to buy a 'Yankee Jib, a light large off-wind sail'.
As a landsman I don't know what an 'off-wind sail' is. Of course I have tried the InTarnet (nice term, Peter!) first - Wikipedia, the lot. There is a lot of technical stuff on off-wind sailing and types of off-wind sails, but they all seem to assume that everyone knows what 'off-wind sailing' actually is. Is there an 'on-wind sailing'? I don't think AR ever used the term, but I'm sure he and John and Nancy would have known what it was. Can anyone help?