The sailing boat, a treatise on sailing boats and small yachts, their varieties of type, sails, rig, etc. With practical directions for sailing and management; also, the one-design and restricted classes, fishing and shooting boats, sailing chariots and ice yachts, foreign and colonial boats, canoes, etc., etc (1901)
Folkard, Henry Coleman, 1827-1914 · London, Edward Stanford · leaf 109
ore-sail and jib are maintained as onesail of triangular shape, laced all the way along the boom and spread by a tough yard. 83 The Sailing-Boat. The sail, when properly made, .should stand just as flat as a board, and without awrinkle; and as it moves with the mast and not around it, is never… … Revolver Scudding. should be much higher than the fore one, so as to keep the boom from dipping in thewater when lying over in a breeze. The fore end of the yard is hinged to the fore endof the bowsprit by means of an iron joint or goose-neck; the reefs are formed inradiating lines along the sail,…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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