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 159
themast is thereby saved from being carried away. The boat should be steered as straight a course as possible when scudding. The 133 The Sailing-Boat. o fore-sail will be of little or no use when going directly before tbe wind, unless boomedout; tbe jib-sheets should be slacked, and the jib allowed… … From a photo by Bekm &> So, Will o lh Wisp scudding. which will take some of the strain off the mast; but the safest precaution is to reef themain-sail and take in the jib. The danger of scudding or running before the wind is much greater in a heavy seathan in smooth water, and a boat is…
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