What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 322
reaking the spars or tear-ing the sail than there is where the whole thing can be droppedin an instant. The English rig is on something of the same,principle as The Cape Vincent Rig, which consists of a long spar and a sprit, the spar being in somecases twelve or fifteen feet in length ; one seven… … Fig. 195. —Cape Vincent Rig. and proper proportions, and made fast to the long spar and tothe end of the sprit, as soon as the latter is forced into place itwill stretch the sail out flat, as in Fig. 195. A boy with one ofthese rigs on his shoulder makes a very rakish-looking craft.The spar is…
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