head seaand is very wet. The weight of the mast, being sofar forward, makes her somewhat liable to run hernose under water and fill. She steers wildly, too, before a sea, andwill broach to morereadily than otherboats, while thelength of her boomrenders an acciden-tal jibe dangerous.The… … Fin. 32. among boating men is, rightly or wrongly, that\vhereas a sloops forestay is carried to the end of afixed bowsprit or an iron bumpkin, the forestay ofa cutter is carried to the stem of the vessel; andthus the sloop can only set one large foresail, in-stead of a foresail and a jib as a…
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