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 75
manipulating the sail by means of the main-sheet,This mode of rig is, of course, applicable to a single-masted lugger with one sail only,as well as to one with two masts. The rig is, in fact, almost equal, as regards con-venience for tacking and manoeuvring, to that of a revolving or sheer-masted… … The peculiarity of this rig consists in the head of the fore-sail (which is square atthe top) being laced to the fore part of the main-sail yard, as shown in the illustration.The rig has therefore the appearance of being contrived out of a lug-sail split from topto bottom in line with the mast, so…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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