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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 202

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tened lug is probably the mostpopular and possibly the most effective, but ithas some decided faults for those who sit highon a deck seat. It is the most dangerous in jybing ; the boom does not top up, and iteither hits the man in swinging across or it goessmash into the water. Hence… … Fig. 6. rigged i.? the most capable of many changes anduses. In 1870 I brought out a hoisting-spreet,but it had the fault then of being practically astanding-spreet so far as its spreet was concerned ; it was really a sliding-gunter spreet. Since thattime, finding it a most effective sail, I…

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