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 54
sail. The main-sail of the sliding-gunteris of similar shape to a latine sail, but is set differently, the lower part of the main-sailof a sliding-gunter being laced to the mast, whereas the whole of a latine sail, frompeak to tack, is laced to a long yard. The sliding-gunter has a short mast, but… … Sliding-Gunter with Small Mi; Either one, two, or three masts and sails of this rig, may be fitted to a boat. Thesliding-gunter is one of the safest of rigs for open boats, and it is besides, one bywhich the sails may be quickly set and as quickly furled; the masts being low theyare very convenient…
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