10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORE AND AFT SAIL»
Discover the use of
fore and aft sail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fore and aft sail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Science
and Civilisation in China: Civil Engineering
and Nautics
One of the most primitive forms of fore-and- aft sail is the Indonesian canted sail,
still rectangular,5 shown in B. The next stage may be found in the 'lateen' sail, so
characteristic of Arabic civilisation; it exists in two forms (C, C"), the former ...
2
Fore and Aft: The story of the
fore and aft rig
After that the transformation of the canvas from a square to a fore-and-aft sail
came fairly easily. But whatever Was the exact cause of the transition, the lug
spread from Norway to Scotland, as we saw just now, and thither also crossed
the N ...
Edward K. Chatterton, 2014
3
Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers
Do Fore and aft sail 6o p.c. time. Fore and aft sail 43 p.c. dine. Clearfield North
Atlantic Fore and aft sail 64 p.c time. t)cean Merthyr South Atlantic [Fore and aft
sail 50 p.c time. Pocahontas, fair North Atlantic Fore and aft sail 76 p.C. time. M 1
I I ...
4
Daily Life in the Age of
Sail
... like the sails of a modern day-sailer. The first fore and aft rigs of three- and four-
sided sails were commonly found in Dutch vessels of the sixteenth century, but
the less sophisticated lateen sails (a triangular fore and aft sail set on a long yard
...
Dorothy Denneen Volo, James M. Volo, 2002
5
Seamanship in the Age of
Sail: An Account of the ...
LOOSING FORE AND AFT SAIL Staysails. The jibs and fore topmast staysail,
were loosed by casting off the gaskets, letting go the downhaul and running up
the halliards, while tending the sheets. A man stood by to light up the hanks on
the ...
... not until after the Battle of Trafalgar that the lateen yard was taken down and in
its place was set a gaff-rigged spanker, the forerunner of the spankers which
were so characteristic of the clipper ships. The true fore and aft sail is a sail
whose ...
The forward side of a fore-and-aft sail is the luff, bent to the mast by means of
hoops, or the MAIN HALYARD HEAD STAY (FORESTAY) J15 HALYARD J
IBSTAY HEAD JIB SNAPS TO STAY \ \ STANDARDS (SHROUDS) _ _ F' JIB
SHEET In ...
8
The Shorter Science
and Civilisation in China:
One of the most primitive forms of fore-and-aft sail is the Indonesian canted (tilted
) sail, still rectangular, and shown in B. The next stage may be found in the 'lateen
' sail, so characteristic of the Arabic civilisation. It exists in two forms, C which ...
Joseph Needham, Colin A. Ronan, 1986
9
Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc
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................... ..Do ......................... .. 'Dam of official speed trial, 5 l 4 B _\I 1 /.'Clcarfield
, gO0d ............................ .._....D0.. ......................... .. Fore and aft sail 50 p.c. time.
American Society of Naval Engineers, 1901
10
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering
and Technology in the ...
... to make the junction watertight. cramp: wooden fitting which draws together two
timbers across a seam. floor: transverse timber set against the planking and
extending from turn of bilge to turn of bilge. fore-and-aft sail: sail that is generally
set ...
