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 149
rings or outer end by hauling down the reef and securingit with the reef-earings to the boom ; then tie up the points with reef knots all along thesail and make the main-tack fast: do not roll the sail. The reefing being so farcompleted, set up the peak, ease off the main-sheet, trim the… … Mr. Harold F, 124 Reefing. The illustration at the foot of the previous page, is from a photograph of the yachtZerlina, a seven-ton cruiser, under close-reefed main-sail, in heavy weather, the fore-sailbeing lowered, hut her No. 1 jib left standing, which, however, is not good seamanship ;instead…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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