. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. f depicting these fisher-craft in allweathers, and frequently in storms running back tothe Scheveningen beach. To understand these weird, beamy objects onemust first realise the objects for which they werebuilt. Off Scheveningen the water is somewhatshallow for some distance out from the shore, and itis notorious that in even a moderate on-shore wind theseas get very bad. The pink puts forth to sea andexpects to ride out this weather to her nets. The firstaim in building her is
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. f depicting these fisher-craft in allweathers, and frequently in storms running back tothe Scheveningen beach. To understand these weird, beamy objects onemust first realise the objects for which they werebuilt. Off Scheveningen the water is somewhatshallow for some distance out from the shore, and itis notorious that in even a moderate on-shore wind theseas get very bad. The pink puts forth to sea andexpects to ride out this weather to her nets. The firstaim in building her is to make her of enormousstrength, and speed is altogether out of the she has finished her fishing she sails back to thebeach about high tide, and then takes the ground, andgradually the tide leaves her high and dry. The beachis all sand, but in bad weather there is, naturally, a IN HOLLAND 307 good deal of bumping before the vessel definitelysettles down. It is for this reason that the pink () is built so stoutly. The sea may continually pickher up and drop her down again, yet she can endure. Fig. 107.—Schbtekingen are exactly two beams to their lengtband remarkably strong. all that. She is given also a very broad keel, and ingeneral is so designed that she can take the groundwith ease. Contrariwise, she is also given such linesby her keel that she will float as quickly as possible, 308 THE MODERN FORE-AND-AFT RIG and be able to get off to her work when a few feet ofwater have risen. Now that the harbour at Scheveningen has beenmade what it is, one may find alongside its quaysquite big editions of these craft, but even then theyare still built with an amount of beam that is almostincredible to eyes that have been accustomed to othercraft. Let it be said at once that the pink is onlytwice as long as she is wide, and looking at her for thefirst time you would say she was just an oblong boxdesigned by a madman. Clinker-built, she is sloop-rigged wi
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