Wood, John George, 1827-1889. [from old catalog] · London, New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge · leaf 153
of the masthead. The stays and ropes which support the masts and bowsprit arecalled the standing rigging, and this is now often of wire rope; theropes which set the sails are called running rigging. Fig. 5 is a dandy, sometimes called a yawl; she is not so fast asa cutter, but is used to avoid the… … i HE AMERICA. SAILING. 143 ihe mainmast is called the mainmil, the four-sided sail on the fore-mast the foresail, the triangular sail represented in Fig. 6 the fore-staysail, and when there is another triangular sail it is the jib.Schooners are either fore-and-aft schooners, as in Fig. 6, or…
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