. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. of rig. Gone are the lateen and thewater-sails. For the loose-footed mainsail that of thecontemporary cutter with its boom and galF has beenborrowed, and so also with regard to the ketch; butit is curious to find that the vangs of those seven-teenth-century Dutch yachts that used to besportthemselves in naval reviews are still retained on themainsail, as will be immediately noticed. In thegalleot to the left of Cookes picture the sails areset, but in that of the foreground of th
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. of rig. Gone are the lateen and thewater-sails. For the loose-footed mainsail that of thecontemporary cutter with its boom and galF has beenborrowed, and so also with regard to the ketch; butit is curious to find that the vangs of those seven-teenth-century Dutch yachts that used to besportthemselves in naval reviews are still retained on themainsail, as will be immediately noticed. In thegalleot to the left of Cookes picture the sails areset, but in that of the foreground of the illustrationthe sails have been stowed and the gaff has beendetached from the head of the sail and hoisted, pos-sibly to act as a derrick, in handling the notice that the lower yard is cock-a-billed andis used for setting a high square-sail. This sail, asin the Revenue-cutters of the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, was not kept bent to the yard aswe should have expected, but when in disuse wastaken off, so that the yard was quite bare. For ourconvenience Cooke has shown the square-sail hanging. FORE-AND-AFT RIG IN HOLLAND 109 up to dry in the background behind the galleotwhich is nearest to us. Observe, too, that in addi-tion to this course and its yard the early nineteenth-century galleot sets a square topsail, and for con-venience this is not detached from its yard, but thecrew when sent aloft to stow get into the foot-ropesand slack away the sail so that it runs along afterthe manner of the contemporary stunsail. A neatstow is then made of it in the centre of the yard,close to the mast, and the sail can be run out alongits yard again when desired. The foresail has beenstowed to the forestay, and the bowsprit, after thechain bobstay and tackle have been slacked off, hasbeen hauled up. We have repeatedly referred, duringthe course of these pages, to the extraordinarily closerelationship existing between the modern Thamesbarge and the Dutchmen, so that here we
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