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 496
mast could be struck with ease by three men.1 The main-sail was a large four-cornered one, called by the Malays lyre tanjong(pointed sail). The boat also carried a fore-mast, on which a latine sail was set;also a mizzen-mast, on which another latine could be used. When the wind washeavy, the lyre… … sail in a breeze, and may be quickly reduced or reefed by luffing into the wind,easing off the sheet and then rolling and winding up the sail, by the simple meansof turning the winch or cross-bar that is fixed to the inner end of the boom.2 Bythis contrivance the sail may be entirely rolled up (so…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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