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On yachts and yacht handling (1901)

Day, Thomas Fleming, 1861-1927 · New York and London, The Rudder Publishing · leaf 104

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t when thesails are winged, is all on one side, and is exerted so asto bring a twisting strain upon the supporting spars.There is not, as in the square-rigger, a balancing ofweights and strains. The freer these vessels are sailingthe more pronounced is this strain. The only relief thespar can find… … Pole Mast Sloop

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