Glossary |
| Balance : Maintaining your distance from the rig, using your bodyweight to oppose and counter balance the rig's pull, by accurate positioning and movement of your body. |
| Barber hauler : In this context it describes the process of using the windward sheet (in addition to the leeward sheet in a Cadet) to achieve correct sheeting angle on the jib. |
| Block to block : When the mainsheet is sheeted in sufficiently that the mainsheet block on the aft end of the boom meets the mainsheet block fixed to the traveller. |
| Downhaul/Cunningham : Control that tensions the luff of the sail. |
| Drop and Push : Drop your weight low and push through the toes on your front foot in order to help maintain trim and drive the board forward. |
| Falls : All strands of a mainsheet. |
| Fourth Corner : A point on the leech of a sail, 1/3rd from the top. |
| Lens foot : Foot panel on a mainsail (fills the gap between bottom of the sail and the boom). |
| Pliant : A leech that is able to spring away in extra pressure and return to it's original position (open and close in response to gusts/waves). |
| Power : Channels the rigs forces. |
| Powerpause : Describes the stage where the sailors are taking the slack out of the sheets in preparation to sheet in, heel the boat to leeward and accelerate the boat. |
| Shift and Switch feet : An easy system that allows you to shift your weight from one leg to another and switch your feet during transitions. |
| Stance : How we position angle and direct the rig's forces with our body. |
| Straight Seven : Windsurfing stance. The Straight 7 is used when we want make the most of the rigs power. This could be used be to increase speed, accelerating after getting into harness and footstraps, continuing through lulls and quite often as a lighter wind planing and non-planing stance. 
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| Strop : Fixed length of string. |
| Super Seven : Windsurfing stance. ‘Super Seven’ is used when we need to control and commit to the rig’s pull or control excess speed. This could be used for stronger wind getting going, harnessing and often as a stronger wind stance. 
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| Throat : Top forward corner of an Optimist sail. |
| Trim : A flat stable platform. |
| Vision : Where you look, your sailing line and how you use your head. |
