{"id":111,"date":"2023-12-01T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/?p=111"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:32:35","slug":"reefing-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/2023\/12\/01\/reefing-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"Reefing Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To reef a sail, roll it up on itself and bundle the material along a boom or mast. This reduces its effective area, which, apparently, proves useful in high winds. I learned of this word in the Friday NY Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/daily\/2023\/01\/22\">Crossword Puzzle of December 1, 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Reefing<\/strong>\u00a0reduces the area of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sail\">sail<\/a>, usually by folding or rolling one edge of the canvas in on itself and attaching the unused portion to a spar or a stay, as the primary measure to preserve a sailing vessel&#8217;s stability in strong winds. Restoring full sail area is termed\u00a0<em>shaking out<\/em>\u00a0a reef.<\/p>\n<cite>Wikipedia contributors, &#8220;Reefing,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Reefing&amp;oldid=1097456005\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Reefing&amp;oldid=1097456005<\/a>\u00a0(accessed December 1, 2023).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To reef a sail, roll it up on itself and bundle the material along a boom or mast. This reduces its effective area, which, apparently, proves useful in high winds. I learned of this word in the Friday NY Times Crossword Puzzle of December 1, 2023. Reefing\u00a0reduces the area of a\u00a0sail, usually by folding or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/2023\/12\/01\/reefing-sails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reefing Sails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,30,17],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","tag-reef","tag-reefing","tag-words","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}