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 196
re or less throughout its whole length, while inthe first-mentioned it comes wholly at the ends. The prin-cipal objection against the leg-o-mutton rig in generalis the great length of mast required. This is one of itsmost serious drawbacks, and the other is the inability toreef the sail. Of course,… … Fig. 2 As mention has been made of lacing a sail to spars, per-haps it would be just as well to digress a little here, andspeak of three well-known methods of lacing. The first,A, (Fig. 2), is the simplest and about as effective as any.The sail is fastened to the boom by an over-and-overlacing. In…
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