Camp, Walter, 1859-1925, ed · New York, P. F. Collier & son · leaf 207
er, even when hove-to under her storm canvas,a Drogue or Floating Anchor can be put out, acontrivance which has enabled even small open boatsto ride out the heaviest gales with safety. A droguegenerally consists of a framework of iron or wood,with strong canvas stretched across it, so as to… … FiG. S7- chorage off the desert island of Trinidad, where Ihung it overboard each morning and had my bath init, without risk of being snapped up by one of thevoracious monsters ever on the watch around us.This drogue (Fig. 57), was thus fashioned:—A coni-cal bag of stout canvas, about five feet in…
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