Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 67
nd to a screw eye set in the cut-water near the water line. It is made fast to the bowsprit andhooked into the screw eye. The forestay is also madefast to the bowsprit and hooked to the masthead. It shouldbe made so short that when fastened the mast will bend slightlyforward. Probably the forestay… … I OUR BOYS. ■ 63 which holds up the gaff is hooked to the mast and made fastto the gaff. The sails are regulated by means of lines called sheets,which are made fast to the booms and carry a small ring onthe other end, which runs upon a wire stretched across thedeck, say, quarter of an inch above it…
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