On yacht sailing : a simple treatise for beginners upon the art of handling small yachts and boats (1904)
Day, Thomas Fleming, 1861-1927 · New York : Rudder Pub. Co. · leaf 40
ow is pointed North the cur-rent of air will pass along both sides of her sail and exertno pressure upon the canvas, acting just as it does uponthe fly of a flag. But if we turn her head slowly roundto the West we will find that the breeze begins to presson the canvas, gradually filling it until… … DIAGRAM C. BEATING TO WINDWARD LONG LEG AND SHORT LEG. 38 But let us suppose that the point we wish to reach isdirectly North. If we continue sailing on this North-west tack we can never reach it. In order to do so wemust have the boat move in another direction. Fourpoints, or forty-five degrees,…
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