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To HAUL the wind
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To HAUL the wind
To HAUL the wind, (venir au vent, Fr.) to direct the ship's course nearer to that point of the compass from which the wind arises. Thus supposing a ship sailing south-west, with the wind northerly, and some particular occasion renders it necessary to haul the wind further to the westward; to perform this operation it is necessary to arrange the sails more obliquely with her keel; to brace the yards more forward, by slackening the starboard and pulling in the larboard braces, and to haul the lowest sheets further aft: and similarly, to put the helm a-port, i.e. over to the larboard side of the vessel. As soon as her head is turned directly to the westward, and her sails are trimmed accordingly, she is said to have hauled the wind four points, that is to say, from S.W. to W. She may still go two points nearer to the direction of the wind, by disposing her sails according to their greatest obliquity; or, in the sea-phrase, by trimming all sharp: and in this situation she is said to be close-hauled, as sailing W.N.W. See the articles CLOSE-HAULED and SAILING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 145, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0669.html