He announces any lead changes to his student crew, who spring from their deck chairs like a bunch of sailors who have just been ordered to raise the jib.
We raised the jib sail and felt the boat suddenly pick up speed.
Pit: Handles all the halyards that raise and lower jibs and code sails.
Using the jib halyard, raise the front sail (jib, genoa or simply the headsail), and cleat the halyard off.
Sails are always raised mainsail first, then the jib, because it's easier to point the boat into the wind using the main.
("It was out into the channel, and we raised the mainsail and the genoa jib, but the winds were contrary," and so on and so on).
Inflation, at 18%, is likely to rise next year, even though the president has similarly jibbed at raising the (massively subsidised) price of petrol.If Mr Maduro does take over, his other main battle will be to prevent factional fighting within chavismo, hitherto held in check only by Mr Chávez's personal authority.
Everything was quiet for a moment, a settling, and then there was again commotion on deck, but it was choreographed commotion, and the sails were raised, a mainsail and a bed-sheet-size jib, two wedges of white against the cobalt sky.
They jib at confining animals.
Jeff, however, cuts a more conservative jib.
