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 67
mbling the pinnace, butsmaller; carvel built, and generally rowed with twelve oars. The Yawl-rig is a distinct term applied to the special form of rig above described;so that any sailing-boat that is Yawl-rigged is termed a Yawl. 41 a The Sailing-Boat. For comfort and convenience, the Yawl-rig is… … West &* Son. Southsea. Satanita, Yawl Rig. can be the more readily reefed; and a mast of smaller proportion suffices. The boombeing also sometimes dispensed with is another advantage, as it considerably lightens therig and enables the boat to ride easier in a sea-way; and the annoyance of a…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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