Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
pwith an extra head-sail. Thisis set from the bow to the mast-head, is cut like a jib, and iscalled the stay-foresail. This rigis generally used with deep keelboats, vvhich has led to a be-lief that a cutter is a deep,narrow keel yacht. Such, how-ever, is not the case; the termapplies only to the… … FIG. 3. THE YAWL. 876 CHOOSING A BOAT. [Sept. been sloops. But the sloop-rig is not by any yawls and are safer than the single-sail catboat.means the safest and handiest for comfortable The flat-bottomed sharpie is the cheapest boatcruising. The yawl and sharpie are much to build, costing not half…
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