. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1883. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE HOLLARS A TEAE. YACHTING. Tumbling Topsails. The most perfect light-weather sail for Bermudian rigged feyachts that we have ever seen, is what is called, for want of abetter name, a "tumbling ringtail topsail. We know of but two yachts that carry themâthe Spray and the Lively. As it can only be carried in light weather it should be made out of very fight duck or even drilling will do for a small jacht. It is triangular with a light spar or boom along the base; care should be taken that it is not mu
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1883. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE HOLLARS A TEAE. YACHTING. Tumbling Topsails. The most perfect light-weather sail for Bermudian rigged feyachts that we have ever seen, is what is called, for want of abetter name, a "tumbling ringtail topsail. We know of but two yachts that carry themâthe Spray and the Lively. As it can only be carried in light weather it should be made out of very fight duck or even drilling will do for a small jacht. It is triangular with a light spar or boom along the base; care should be taken that it is not much longer from the apes of the triangle to the base, than it is along the boom, for if it is not compact it will belly out,and will then set only off the wind. But made in the proportion of 5 along the base to 6 in length, it will set right above the mainsail and will pull on the wind until the mainsail shakes. The hal- liards are bent at the centre of the boom and it hoists up over the topping lift and of course above the mainsail. To each end of the boom a tack is made fast which leads through a "lizard," or dead eye on the main rigging, and from thence aft to the cockpit. The sheet or outhaul leads through a sheave on the outer end of the main boom, and then inboard so that by pulling on either tack as may be necessary the boom can be made to set any angle desired. The advantages of this sail over the old style of ringtail, the boom of which sets up and down along the mast and the point coming down nearly to the main boom, are many: it is much easier to set and lower, will draw on or off the wind and equally well on either tack. Say for instance the boat is on the port tack, then trim in on the starboard tack of yoor ringtail and make &st; the sail then sets in a parallel plane to your mainsail and all the wind that it catches from above your mainsail cannot jrecape, except by gliding down, so to speak, between the two sails, these making every inch of the sai
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