Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 159
This isalmost always accompanied by a change of course. Toillustrate: Let us suppose you are sailing with the windover the starboard quarter (starboard tack), then the boomwill be out to port. It is desired to change the course moreto the left (port). This may be done by swinging the boataround and… … Fig. 3 but the sail just swings over. The delicate part of thismovement is to break the force of the shock that is causedby the sheet checking the sail on the other side. To ac-complish this when the wind begins to spill out of the sailthe sheet must be hauled in rapidly as the sail swings…
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