According to the Maritime Dictionary I picked up several years ago, Wikipedia is only partly right.
A jibe is when the sails of a square rigger luff or flutter when the wind blows on the front of the sails. This could be from a steering error, or an intentional steering action intended to us wind pressure to help adjust the angle of the spars. In my mind's eye I can see doing this when you want to change course from 10 points off the wind to only 8 points off the wind. A gybe is a change in direction when running free (going down wind) which changes the direction of the wind from one side of the boat to the other by bringing the wind across the stern of the boat. Wearing ship is the process of changing from one tack to the other when going upwind by turning off the wind and bringing the wind across the stern of the boat. It is an alternative to tacking (at which square riggers were pretty horrible). So wearing is done when going upwind, and gybing is done when going downwind. Rick Brass Sent from my iPad > On Sep 4, 2014, at 16:26, Frederick G Street via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Yes. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibe > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI > >> On Sep 4, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Rich Knowles via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> >> Is it gybe or jibe?? >> >> Rich > >
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