Yachts and Yachting; Being a Treatise on Building, Sparring, Canvassing, Sailing and the General Management of Yachts (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. " Long did I live on this poor legacy, Till, tired with rooks and my own native sky, To arts of navigation I inclined; Observed the turns and changes of the wind: Learned the fit havens, and began to note The stormy Hyades, the rainy Goat, The bright Taygete, and the shining Bears, With all the sailor's catalogue of stars."? Addison. Proportion For A Twenty-five-ton Cutter. vire2in; wirepin, to Sin. Main shrouds ............ . ................. hemp 4iin Forestay ................ Main halliards ................ Purchase fall ............... Teak halliards ................ Purchase fall .............. Bowsprit shrouds ........................... Falls ........................ Bobstay pendant .............................. Bobstay fall ............... Topmast shrouds .............................. Topmast stay ................ Topmast shroud falls ........................ Jib halliards ................ .lib purchase ................ Main sheet ................ Boom topping lifts (double) ............... Boom topping lifts (single) ............... Boom topping purchase ..................... Reef pendants ................ Eecftackle ............. ......................... (Jaft topsail halliard tie .............. . ...... Gaff topsail halliard purchase ........... Gaff topsail sheets .......................... Jib sheets ................ To be made in the same way as recommended for a Fifty-ton Cutter. Fore sheets (double) ........................ " IJin. Boom guy pendant ........................... " Sin. Boom guy purchase ........................... . " 2in. Trysail sheets ................ " 2in. Peak downhaul ................ " lin. 2)in. IJin. 2Jin. IJin. Sin ...........