Fore And Aft the Story of the Fore Aft Rig From the Earliest Times to the Pre
Fore And Aft the Story of the Fore Aft Rig From the Earliest Times to the Pre
E Keble Edward Keble Chatterton
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W'hy was this ? The answer is quite simple. I^ook at the topsail. That has to be goared — that is to say, its foot has to be hollowed out — so as to clear the forestay. But in cutting the top- sail of this shape a great deal of sail-area is wasted. It is to make up for this deficiency, therefore, that the lower course comes up in a triangular form. And now compare this Dutch craft with that Eng- lish one in Fig. 32, which is also from Cooke. Here we have a craft which is well known to all who a...re familiar with the coasters along the east of England. Cooke has happily made his sketch at low-water, so that we can see the under-body of this ship. It is true that she is cutter-rigged in this instance, but they are more usually ketch -rigged. If j^ou compare them hull for hull you will find that Holland is far more manifest in the billy-boy than England. Like the Dutchman she still carries leeboards ; the mast is still stepped in a tabernacle for convenience in lowering; and though the square-topsail is retained in the sketch before us, it has to-day gone, but the modern billy-boy still retains the lower course for use when running before the wind.
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