Wood, John George, 1827-1889. [from old catalog] · London, New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge · leaf 154
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… … rig first introduced here in 1851 by the America. She carries inlight winds a jib and a main gaff-topsail, but no fore gaff-topsail.English fore-and-aft schooners usually carry gaff-topsails on bothmasts. A square-topsail schooner (Fig. 7) carries a square-topsail andtopgallant sail on her…
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