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 60
dern type,which is a vast improvement in every respect. Cutters of the old type carried a gaff-topsail in fine weather, when reaching,running, or sailing free, but a gaff-topsail was seldom of any use to the boat when ona wind. Gaff-topsails are now rarely, if ever, seen on a Cutter yacht of the… … The Gauntlet (Old type of Cutter Yacht). usually rigged as pole-masted boats; that is, without a top-mast; or rather the polemast forms, in itself, top-mast as well as main-mast. The Cutter rig is suitable for boats of any size, and for small vessels up to sixtyor eighty tons; beyond that tonnage…
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