The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 43
out onboard them, and when it becomes necessary to use the oars,they are not as efficient as in a boat entirely open, owing tothe additional weight of decks and extra rigging. We havea variety of rigs in use in pleasure-boats at the present day,namely, tho lug, sprit, cutter, schooner, yawl or… … ■■%ff which the greatest simplicity of arrangement, provided itensures efficiency, should ever be kept in view. Of these rigs,the two first named, the lug and the sprit, are the most general,because on the whole they are the most useful for small boats;and as regards the others, we can defer the…
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