Camp, Walter, 1859-1925, ed · New York, P. F. Collier & son · leaf 208
be capsized and relieved ofthe pressure of the water before being hauled onboard. 176 Boating A vessel riding to her drogue with some fortyfathoms of hawser out (grass rope which floats on thewater is perhaps the best), as she drags astern is everkept head to wind and sea, and can not well pay off… … Fig. 58. (Fig. 58). The hawser must be attached to the mid-dle of a rope about twice the length of the spar, therope being made fast at either end to the extremitiesof the spar, thus forming a span, and keeping thespar broadside on to the seas. A bit of ballast shouldbe attached to the lower corner…
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