Janet | December 3, 2009
Today’s challenge is: Lazy Jacks. Do you know what this phrase means and how it originated?
Sailing Lingo aims to test your knowledge of the peculiar and sometimes indecipherable language of sailing. We pose a question and see who can answer it most accurately in the comments on the post. The following day we’ll post the answer to the question and save you some Googling!
Wayne Green Said,
December 4, 2009 @ 8:24 am
Lazy Jack is one of the less valuable members of my crew, very hard to motivate him!!
So because of him we have his namesakes which are lengths of line/cord in the rigging to form a web to guide the sails onto the boom when lowering, thus eliminating the need for the original lazy Jack.