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 76
e which forms thefore-sail is secured in the bows of the boat, or to the outer end of the bowsprit orboomkin ; and the clew is worked with fore-sheets, just as an ordinary fore-sail. One 50 The Split Lug. of the advantages of this rig is that in tacking the yard need not be dipped or lowered,but… … The Querida, though of the split-lug type of rig, differs in several respects fromthe ordinary split-lug already described. The most striking peculiarity in the rig of the Querida is the outstanding fore-sail,the head of which is slung from the outer fore-end of the yard, which extends…
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