BOSUN’S BAG
TRICING UP OR SCANDALISING?
ne of the hidden benefits of gaff rig is that shortening sail drastically in a couple of seconds comes in two exciting flavours, neither of which is available to the bermudan hordes. Tricing up has been considered before in this column so I shan’t dwell on it at length. It is, in my opinion, the superior of the two, but in order to execute it the sail must be loose-footed on its boom and must be held in to the mast by hoops. Given these two premises, all that’s required is a
