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 114
to a flat board, painted white tocorrespond in colour with the sail. This board is pivoted at both ends, and works in twoiron stanchions at the extremities of boom and bowsprit, so as to be turned easily ; it isprovided with self-acting catches at each end so that a reef can be taken by merely a 88… … Revolver close-reefed. during the performance. If a sail of triangular shape is to be reefed in this manner, thereef-board must also be triangular. Another method of reefing quadrangular and triangular revolving sails is withoutany reef-board or roller, but by lacing the reefs with an endless rope,…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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