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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIX (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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erfect in their way, lightand graceful spars, the sails laoed to small eyes driven in mastand boom; and the foot of the mast, only extending about 5in.below deck, fitted with a brass ferrule, so as to turn with perfectease, all the masts in a set, five in number, being interchangeable.The boom jaw is shown in the cut. a brass casting with a socketfor the boom, a pin running through the maat and ends of jaws.Of course both mast and jaw must turn together as the sail istrimmed. The ten sails, the tent, a very good one, by the way,and all the tent pegs and poles stow in a large box which lies bythe float in camp, with all sails ready to hand. They differ byabout 5ft. each in area, from 20 to 40 sq. ft., so any amount may beset. There are no lines but the sheets, the two or three sailsheeded are taken from the box and dropped into their propertubes, and the rigging is completed. Certainly there is much torecommend the rig on the score of simplicity. Sept, 15, 1887.) FOREST AND STREAM. 153
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CANOE FITTINGS. 1887. The other rig in this class was shown at Ballast Island this yearby Mr. Cook, of Chicago, who invented it. The sails arc the ordi-nary sprits, the only difference being In the method of rigging thesprit. Instead of hoisting on the mast it is carried out about Sin.on theboom. The lower end of the sprit has a gooseneck formedof two screweyes, one screwed into the end of the sprit and theother simplv hooked into its eye. The end of the loose scroweyeslips into a hole iu the boom, thus the sprit acts to hold the boomdown. The sail has a peak which is, of course, well set up by thesprit, the entire sail is flat and effective, hut like the Pecowsic rig,no reefing or stowing is possible; the entire rig must be unshippedor allowed to take charge of the boat in a blow. Only one of thisrig was shown at the A, C» A, meet, and that in an incompleteBtate, so no comparison was possible. Of the second class of sails the first variety is that of the Notus,a lego-mutton sail wit

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