The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Reef Tackle

Sea Terms

The tackle which holds the middle of the leach of a squaresail up to the yard in reefing. On a fore-and-aft vessel the reef tackle hauls the reef earing on the leach of the sail out along the boom.

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