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Title: Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
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Publisher: London : Seeley, Service
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ail hasbeen sheeted forward so that the vessel will get asclose to the wind as possible, but so long as it remainsa square-sail and has not those features of the lug justmentioned, there will be a difference of at least onepoint in the sailing qualities of the square-sail and thelug, and the advantage will be in favour of the latter.Therefore, by the not very elaborate process the yardof the square-sail is braced round, the tack is hauleddown, and the after end of the yard becomes peaked.Thus the square-sail becomes a fore-and-after. I have not thought it necessary to reproduce morethan these accompanying illustrations to explain howsmall in reality is the alteration, but the reader whocares to pursue the subject will find ample pictorialevidence in the works of the great Dutch painters ofthe seventeenth century, especially of such men asthose already mentioned, as well as Van der Veldeand Bakhuyzen. The Dutch museums teem with suchpaintings, and the galleries of London and Paris will
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IN NORTHERN EUROPE 57 afford probably as many examples as will be required.In the next sketch in Fig. 6, which is taken froma model in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, we seethe Dutch equivalent of the Mediterranean lateengalley. Here there is no hesitation as to the rig,and the lugsail has entirely replaced the square-sail,but a mizzen has been added as a kind of after-thought, and a jib too. Very characteristic are thepair of leeboards on each side and the unique arrange-ment of topsails. So as to clear the mast the topsailis divided into half, and the little yard on the after-half is very characteristic of the Dutchman, who lovesthese small spars and employs them whenever hehas an opportunity—as, for instance, for bending thehalyard to his foresail on a hoogarts, as we shall notelater on. It cannot be denied that this model beforeus, with her guns, her chase-piece, and her beak,betrays the influence of the Mediterranean galley,even though the lugsail is different from the lateen.Hund

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