A rope by which a jib is trimmed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Set your weather jib sheet so that the clew of the jib falls directly over the middle of the seat.
- Study how a boat's particular jib sheets are run in relation to lifelines, pulleys and winches.
- In all conditions the jib sheet in a tack could be trimmed and cleated without the help of a winch.
- The jib sheet should be trimmed so that the middle batten is parallel to the centerline of the boat.
- He must have let go the main sheet and reached over and grabbed the main halyard instead of the jib sheet and didn't even know what he'd done.