headstay 
noun
Another term for forestay.If the tack line feeds to a fitting foreword of the headstay the sail must go outside the headstay....
- When you tension the backstay so the headstay becomes straight, the mast will then have prebend in it.
- Prior art headstays carried a single luff bread or a luff rope in the forward edge of the jib.
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