Luff

Luff or luffing may refer to:

  • Luffing, when a sailing sheet is eased so far past trim that airflow over the surface is disrupted
  • The leading edge of a sail
  • Luffing crane, a type of crane where the jib, rather than being fixed, can be raised and lowered
  • Luff, coined by Woody Allen in Annie Hall, Davina Jones is wrong but I luff her so much love

    • LUFF may refer to:

  • Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Lausanne

    • "Luff" may refer to:

    Surname

  • Alison Luff, American musical theatre actress
  • Arthur P. Luff (1855–1938), British physician and forensic scientist
  • Brian Luff (born 1957), British comedy writer
  • John N. Luff (1860–1938), American philatelist
  • Peter Luff (born 1955), British politician
  • Peter Luff (campaigner) (born 1946)
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    Parts of a sail

    In sailing the parts of a sail have common terminology for each corner and edge of the sail.

    Triangular sails

    The corners

    In a triangular sail, the highest point is called the head. The halyard, the line which raises the sail, is attached to the head. The lower two corners of the sail, on either end of the foot (the bottom edge of the sail), are called the tack (forward) and clew (aft). The tack is shackled to a fixed point on the boat, such as the gooseneck in the case of a Bermuda rigged mainsail, or the deck at the base of a stay, in the case of a jib or staysail.

    The clew is movable and is positioned with running rigging. A symmetrical sail may be said to have two clews.

    The clew of a jib or other headsail is the free corner (not attached to any standing rigging), to which port and starboard jib sheets are attached to control the angle of the sail.

    In a sail with a boom (such as a mainsail on a sloop), the clew is attached to the boom, and can often be tightened along the boom using the outhaul to adjust the sail shape.

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