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 177
ts also. All the halliards, and indeed every ro2>e belonging to the sails, shouldbe laid in a separate coil, so as to be ready to be run out without obstruction, in caseof sudden emergency; but more particularly the main-sheet, which should never bemade fast, except in the slightest and most… … Eos just before cap boats are capsized, the reason is, simply, that the person attending the sheets, in hisconfusion at the moment of danger—from fright, inattention, or some other unpardon-able cause—fails to slack the main-sheet until too late, and at a period when his ownweight, and probably…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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