St Nicholas [serial] . ow they can be made fast to the mast, forthen you cant raise the gaff; and I dont see how there can be aforetop-sail, because it would foul the maintop-stay. I am going totake my schooner to pieces, and rig it up right after school hours,and if you would like, I will tell you more about it some other time.— Lewis G. Conant. Miniature yachts, when rigged as schooners, have foretop-masts and maintop-masts, and foretop-sails, and maintop-sails. Both top-sails are secured to short sprits or poles, and are hoisted fromdeck. The stay from the foremast to the mainmast is called
St Nicholas [serial] . ow they can be made fast to the mast, forthen you cant raise the gaff; and I dont see how there can be aforetop-sail, because it would foul the maintop-stay. I am going totake my schooner to pieces, and rig it up right after school hours,and if you would like, I will tell you more about it some other time.— Lewis G. Conant. Miniature yachts, when rigged as schooners, have foretop-masts and maintop-masts, and foretop-sails, and maintop-sails. Both top-sails are secured to short sprits or poles, and are hoisted fromdeck. The stay from the foremast to the mainmast is called the . irowoncige lias a nearly word to say, and tnends irom the p; side of the Atlantic are coming to have a friendly talk with George MacDonald, who wrote that wonderful fairy tale, e Princess and the Goblin, and the rhyme beginning Where ; r ou come from, baby dear? will soon be heard from, and before you shall have a word from the school-boys friend, Tom Hughes, ar of Tom Brown at Oxford and School-days at spring-stay, and in changing the vessels course, the fore top-sailis lowered till it can pass under the spring-slay, and then it is broughtup on the other side. Ratlines are never used on the shrouds. Onlythe larger vessels use cross-trees, or spreaders as they are called;and in every case the top-mast back-stays always come to the deck,and are fastened just abaft (to the rear) of the shroud. Such schoon-ers also have a stay from the top of the maintop-mast to the top ofthe mainmast, This outline drawing gives the position of the sails commonly usedin miniature yachts; 1 is the mainsail, 2 the maintop-sail, 3 the fore-sail, 4 the foretop-sail, 5 the staysail, 6 the jib, 7 the flying-jib. Thefirst mast is called the foremast; the short mast above, the foretop-mast. The second mast is the mainmast, and the one above it isthe maintop-mast. Two shrouds arc given to each mast, and oneback-stay to each topmast. The dotted lines show how the foretop-sail passes the spr
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