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 150
-fire, or the very smallest jib on board,ought to have been set. Never tie the points of a second or third reef until the first or lower ones have beensecured ; you may then shake out the reefs one at a time, as the wind decreases. Always look to your reef-tackle before setting sail, and see that… … Boat with roller fore The illustration is from a photograph of one of the Bembridge Club boats men-tioned and described at p. 71. It is introduced here as shoAving the working ofthe roller fore-sail. Reefing by rolling the Sails—a simple, but not novel, contrivance for reefing the sailsof a boat by…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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