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
horter mainmast. Ineffect, that rig was a gaff main-sail with a jib-headed top-sail, the yard of which did the duty ofa topmast. This sail has since been produced, wewill not say copied, on several American canoes,but they all miss the very point of the rig forwhich I brought it out. As we are not… … Fig. 7. and a sketch shows it partly set, or also partlylowered, as it can be for a heavy squall or a badjybe, or for coming into port among a lot ofcraft. In this case the main or jaw-halliard iskept fast, and the peak is lowered. The luff-rope on the sail must be strong, and dressed withlinseed…
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