Loffer
On a sailing , loffer is to operate the ship so as to bring the sailing ship closer to the axis of the wind.
For loffer the cox (or the quartermaster) modifies the direction followed by the ship while operating the bar.
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As in any operation changing the incidence of the wind on the veils, it is generally necessary to regulate the aerofoil after having loffé.
- a sailing ship can have a natural tendency to loffer: one speaks about burning sailing ship. The modern sailing ships are generally burning.
- With the back wind by fresh wind, the sailing ship has tendency to loffer in an unverifiable way: one speaks about departure to the windward side or about auloffée.
One uses the loffer term in various contexts:
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to indicate a change of Cape, rather than to indicate a new course, one can require of the cox loffer of N degrees
- with the Close, when the wind devotes, one goes loffer to keep the inflated veils. In a more general context, one can request from the cox loffer if the adjustment of the aerofoil is not adapted any more (because of a rotation of the wind) and that this one overrides the steered course.
The opposite operation consists with Abattre.
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- To regulate the aerofoil
- To cut down
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