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Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 180
and the chief support of thespars. It connects the bowof the boat with the bow-sprit and prevents the lat-ter from bobbing up anddown. Besides the port andstarboard sides of a boatthere are the windward andleeward sides. Do not un-derstand by this that theboat has four sides like asquare. Windward… … Fig. 108.—Sail and Sheet. 162 Siiimner may mean the direction from which the wind comes. Theopposite side is called Leeward—that is, the side of the boat opposite to thatagainst which the wind blows, where the wind tumblesoverboard, or the side opposite to windward. When youare sailing you may be…
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