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 53
Settee with Mizzen. THE SLIDING-GUNTEE. The sliding-gunter is a pretty and ingenious form of rig for a pleasure boat; it isalso one that was formerly much in use for the sailing-boats attached to large yachtsand merchant ships, but has in that respect been superseded by the modern steam- … Sliding-Gunter Rig. 28 Sliding- Gunter. launch. It consists (as regards a single-masted sliding-gunter) as a rig for a pleasureboat of two sails only, viz. main-sail and fore-sail. The main-sail of the sliding-gunteris of similar shape to a latine sail, but is set differently, the lower part of the…
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