Editing Lugger (section)

== Performance ==
Sailing performance with a standing lug relies on the right amount of luff tension. An essential component of this rig is the tack tackle, a purchase with which luff tension is adjusted for various points of sail.{{r|Barnes 2014|p=34}}

The balanced (or balance) lug has a boom that projects in front of the mast roughly the same distance as the yard. This is generally used in dinghies. The sail is left on the same side of the mast regardless of the wind direction. A downhaul is set up from the boom to a point close to the heel of the mast and its adjustment is critical to getting this sort of sail to set correctly.{{r|Barnes 2014|p=37}}
Luggers were used extensively for [[smuggling]] from the middle of the 18th century onwards; their fast hulls and powerful rigs regularly allowed them to outpace any Revenue vessel in service. The French three-masted luggers also served as [[privateer]]s and in general trade. As smuggling declined from about 1840, the [[Mast (sailing)|mainmast]] of British three-masted luggers tended to be discarded, with larger sails being set on the fore and mizzen. This gave more clear space in which to work [[fishing net]]s.<ref name="March 1952">{{cite book |last1=March |first1=Edgar J. |title=Sailing Drifters: The story of the herring lugger of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man |date=1952 |publisher=David and Charles (Publishers) Limited |location=Newton Abbott |isbn=0-7153-4679-2 |edition=1969 reprint}}</ref>{{rp|pages=15–19}}

[[File:Gustave Courbet - Plage de Normandie (National Gallery of Art).jpg|thumb|right|A French lugger, beached and drying nets.  The lugsail is spread on the beach.  Painted by [[Gustave Courbet]] around 1874.]]