The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 642
spritsail rig is what is seen in boats every day, the sailbeing extended by a long pole, which is put into a snorter atthe upper end of the angle of the sail, and is pushed up to thefull extent the sail allows, the lower end resting in a loopfastened round the mast, so that when it is raised a… … Pig. 4. 246 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. and keeps the centre quite tightly folded up, the only partloose being that portion from the lower end by the mainsheet,to the part where the brail keeps in the sail. The lateen is simply an elongated lug-yard, whioh reachesfrom the loweT fore-end of the sail…
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