Word: outhaul
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...everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor...
...until Depression I did highway hauling come into its own. By that time the trailer had become an adjunct to the inter-city truck. For, as a horse can pull more than it can carry, so a trailer pulled by a motor in a cab can outhaul a truck...
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