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 257
by any other mode of rig. And as regards safety, the whole of the sail stands low down; lofty peaks areentirely dispensed with. Sail may be shortened with great facility as the battensenable each section to be folded up in fan-like form; and this applies to the fore-sail as well as the main-sail.… … Nautilus close-reefed. fact, in two sails, the division being in line with the mast; and for scudding andrunning before the wind, a powerful and extensive spread of sail is carried in acompact and low position, enabling the boat to maintain a steadier motion in a sea-way than if rigged with lofty…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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