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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 57

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ws down, somewhat dangerously, drenchingthe crew with spray, and sometimes making more leeway than headway. 31 The Sailing-Boat. The chief objection to the Una rig is, the stout heavy mast (in proportion to thesize of the boat), and its position so far forward in the bows. The rig is all very… … The sloop (anciently shaloop), a somewhat old-fashioned but most useful rig,resembles the cutter in several respects. The main-sail is in fact precisely the same,being fitted with gaff and boom; but the fore-sail is set on a fore-stay attached to theouter end of a standing bowsprit—and therefore,…

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