Comments on: Sailing Lingo: Lazy Jacks http://www.starclippersblog.com/2009/12/sailing-lingo-lazy-jacks/ The official online blog community of Star Clippers' three tall ships. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wayne Green http://www.starclippersblog.com/2009/12/sailing-lingo-lazy-jacks/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Wayne Green Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:24:55 +0000 http://www.starclippersblog.com/?p=1144#comment-311 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. ;-) 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. ;-)

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