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 47
heel-rope should be slipped over the lowerend of the spreet as it stands in the snouter; a pull or two on the fall of the heel-ropewill then peak the sail as much as may be required. The usual sized boat suitable for the sprit-sail rig is one about fifteen or sixteen feet 21 The Sailing-Bo at. in… … Sprit-sail and Fore-sail. upper pressure, which is thereby thrown upon the lower part of the mast. No boom isrequired for the sprit-sail. As to the shrouds, a single small-sized rope on each side of the mast will besufficient; but a small boat will sail better and be safer without shrouds. The…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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