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 142
ain, when set, so flat a surface as fore-sails, boom-mainsails, and gaff top-sails;and it has been generally admitted, that if jibs and other trilateral sails could be madeon a principle that would ensure their standing flat, many advantages would be gained. The late Mr. Matthew Orr (of the firm… … Every seaman is aware that the sailing qualities of a vessel materially depend onthe cut of the sails, and particularly on jibs that will trim to the same angle asthe other sails. In regard to boom-main sails and fore-sails, they are made to standflat without difficulty, and are now generally laced…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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