[37] Ropes fast to the aftermost lower corner of the jib and foresail, to hold them down. The jib has two ropes or sheets fast to its corner, one of which comes on each side the forestay, for the convenience of tacking, &c. The foresail has only one sheet, which is fast to the traveller, or ring on the horse or bar of iron, which crosses from one gunwale to the other, just before the mast. [38] The point on either side where the side and stern meet. [39] A small tackle, one end of which is hooked to the main boom, and the other forward, to keep the boom from swinging. [40] Midway between the sides of the vessel. [41] Instead of larboard, when speaking of the helm, port is the proper term, in contrariety to starboard, used for the sake of distinctness in directing the helmsman. [42] Stout ropes which lead, one from each side the main boom, near its outer end, through a block on its respective side the mast, just under the cross-trees, whence it descends about half-way, and is connected to the deck or gunwale by a tackle. [43] Jib and foresail. N.B. If you are obliged to jibe as above, you must, in the following directions for bringing the wind on your beam, read larboard for starboard, and _vice versâ_. BRINGING THE VESSEL WITH THE WIND ON THE LARBOARD BEAM.[44] [44] That is, athwart or across the waist of the vessel, called a-beam, because it is in the same direction that her beams lay, or at right angles with her keel. Her head is then eight points from the wind.--The wind is said to be abaft the beam, or before the beam, according as the vessel’s head is more or less than eight points from the wind. Supposing that you have not jibed, starboard the helm a little, and let the vessel spring her luff[45] with her head to the northward. Slack the boom guy, and haul in the main-sheet. Haul aft[46] the jib-sheet, and bowline[47] the foresail. [45] Sail nearer to the wind. [46] That is, toward the hinder part or stern. [47] A rope made fast to the foremost shroud, and passed through a thimble in the after-leach of the foresail, then round the shroud again, and round the sheet. If she come up fast, port the helm[48] a little, and meet her, then right[49] it when she lays her proper course. [48] Always put the helm the contrary way to that which you want the vessel’s head to turn. [49] That is, bring it a-midships; the same with _steady_. Hook and haul taut the lee runner and tackle. You will now find it necessary to carry the helm a little a-port or a-weather. * * * * * If, instead of directing our course eastward, we had preferred doing so westward, we must have jibed previous to bringing the wind on the beam, and then the preceding operations would necessarily have been, to a corresponding extent, reversed. CLOSE-HAULING THE VESSEL.[50]