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 158
ssary when running before a strong wind, in order to protect themast from being carried away. The shrouds are no protection to the mast when sailingwith the wind abaft. When running before the wind the main-sheet should be given out freely, therunning tackle cast off to leeward but set up to… … ng before the wind. watchful eye must be kept upon the sail and attention paid to the wind ; for should thesail be suddenly jybed, i.e. blown over to the other side of the boat, when the main-sheet is all run out, the boat is almost certain to be capsized, or the mast carried away,if there be much…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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