The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 611
his shown in the next illustration, ismainsail and jib in one. It is notmuch used except on small boatslike canoes. The kind of sail-boatused, and its rig, depend much on thewater in which it is to sail. A boatfor use on smooth sheltered waterwould not be appropriate for theopen sea, and vice… … Lateen.mutton, a balance-lug, or somethingsimilar. For bays and arms of thesea a larger boat of greater draughtis proper, with a mainsail, or jib andmainsail. A vessel like a raft, which canmove in any direction on the water,will always drift before the wind,but if the vessel have a keel, or…
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