Small-boat sailing; an explanation of the management of small yachts, half-decked and open sailing-boats of various rigs; sailing on sea and on river; cruising, etc (1902)
Knight, Edward Frederick, 1852- [from old catalog] · New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 58
becoated with canvas, or, better still, with leather.If coated with canvas, the strop should be painted ;if leather is employed, it should be sewn on thestrop wet, as it will shrink when dry, and so fittightly to the strop. It is well to have a swivel or revolving hook onone of the blocks of any… … Galvanised Clip-HOOKS (Fig. 38) should be splicedinto the ends of such parts of rigging as have fre-quently to be hooked and unhooked. When hookinga clip-hook to an eye,the two parts of theclip-hook are opened j\ out; they are then ^_^«><^^closed over the eye,one part overlappingthe other.…
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