A boat is close-hauled or sailing by or on the wind, when her sheets are hauled close aft and all her sails are drawing and she is sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing with advantage in working to windward.
Isikhephe sitsalwa kufutshane okanye siqhutywa ngomoya okanye emoyeni, xa iintsontelo zokulawula iiseyile zitsalelwe kufutshane ngemva kwaye lonke uqhutyo luza kuqhubeleka kufutshane kangangokuba kunokwenzeka kulwalathiso apho umoya ubhudla ngohlobo olululo ekusebenzeni kwiwadi yomoya.