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 419
f the mainsail, and projectsin front of the mast to the extent (in a boat of about 5 or G tons) of 3 ft. ormore, and the boom itself is held close to the mast by a grommet. The boomstands about 4 ft. above deck at the fore end in front of the mast. The tack of themainsail is secured to the lower… … Bermudian rig, showing boom fittings and fin-keel. foot of the mainsail which hangs below the boom is fitted with lanyards, which thecrew hold in their hands when the boat is close hauled, and, assisted by the mainsheet, the lower part of the sail is thus also made to stand as flat as the upper…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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