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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 49

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with a fresh breeze abaft. The following are suitable dimensions for a suit of sails [sprit-sail and fore-sail) for asmall open sailing-boat, or skiff, fifteen feet in length, by five feet six inches inbreadth. ft. ins.Hoist of mainsail 7 6 Length of spreet 1G 0 ft. ins. 7 6 Length of spreet S 3… … Three-masted Sprit-sail. The three-masted sprit-sail rig is a very pretty and useful one for a small boat,about eighteen or twenty feet in length, by five feet beam. The rig consists of four sails, viz. three sprit-sails and a jib; or it may be twosprit-sails, jib, and Bermudian mizzen (as shown in…

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