The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 506
spritsail sloop. These two last-named,inasmuch as they carry booms extending beyond the stern,should be fitted with side decks, or, as they are sometimestermed, waterways. Fig. 6 is a much larger boat, measuring twenty-two feetfrom the fore side of the stem to the after side of the sternpost,and… … 110 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. are often called, jib-headed topsails, are set without any topmast,its place being supplied by a pole or yard to which the sail islaced before hoisting. It should reach not less than a thirdof the distance down the mast, where the heel is secured by a lashing. It is…
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