The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 613
le, is secured on board. in any other rig; and this, combined with the fact that lessstrength to do the work is requisite, renders it the most eco-nomical which haa ever been invented. For light winds a large jib should be provided, which shouldhoist to within two and a half feet of the… … BEEMUDA-EIGGED SCHOONEB. The heads or upper corners of these sails are hoisted byhalliards passing through sheave-holes in the masts just abovetliem. In the mainmast a sheave-hole should not be cutthrough the line of the middle of it, but a hole for the sheave,formed by flattening the mast a little…
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