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 147
ich hempen and manilla rope were formerly used in the running tackle ofa yacht. Rigging Screws. —Dead-eyes are now wholly discarded for setting up the standingrigging of a yacht: all .such bulky contrivances being superseded by the moderninvention of right and left-handed rigging screws, which are… … The illustration is from a photograph by Bekeri & Son, of Cowes, showing someboats of the two-and-a-half rating class, setting sail and getting ready for the start in asailing match on the Solent. On setting sail—say in a small yacht rigged with three sails, main-sail, fore-sail andjib—first…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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