The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and moreefficientarcalong the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.
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However, during the 1950s through to the 1970s the removal of the partitionformingpart of the enclosure to the boxbedrecesses to increase the size of rooms was common.