The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 698
e luff, 19 feet 8 inches, and onthe leech 17 feet 6 inches; the small jib 13 feet 8 inches onthe luff, 6 feet 9 inches on the foot, and 12 feet 2 inches onthe leech. THE ITCHEN BIG. This rig has obtained its appellation from the river Itchen,which falls into Southampton Water near the docks of… … On reference to the accompanying woodcut it will be seen thatthe Itchen boat is nothing more than a sloop without a boom tothe mainsail, and a somewhat shorter bowsprit, and that having noboom ; the mainsheet traverses on a horse. As the mainsail issomewhat more narrow on the foot than that of the…
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