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 144
he angulated jib has a further advantage over the ordinary one in being lessliable to shake; and when the vessel is in stays with the sheet to windward, theangulated jib takes effect sooner than the other.1 1 This description of the angulated jib, together with the engraving, was published in the… … Bekcn&= Son,Cowes, I. of IV. A battened sail signifies a sail fitted with strips of flat wood, like laths, athwartthe sail horizontally; the object being to keep the sail flat and prevent any flicker atthe outer, or aft leech of the sail. Battens are not applied to the sails of yachts of the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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