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 153
ich are generally irregular. On suchoccasions great advantages may be gained by watching the effect of the Avind upon theluff of the main-sail, for the boat can bs sailed tAvo points nearer the Avindin some of thegusts than in others; then is the time for the skilled helmsman to Avedge his way… … ::-r:-~rrr??~V-. Another point of great importance is the trimming of the jib-sheets. A Avell-cut jibis a very powerful sail on a good boat, but the jib-sheet must be trimmed to a nicety, sothat the sail fills and draws with all its power. The jib-sheets require skilful manipu-lation ; an inch or…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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