. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. prit steeved high out above thewater. On this spar she would set a jib. On the fore-stay she would carry a staysail, and above this a squaretopsail, as on the full-rigged ships. Abaft the mast wasset her mainsail, quadrilateral in shape, with a gafF atthe top and no boom. There are so many illustrationsof these vessels rigged as above that there is no possiblesuggestion that they were mere freaks. One can seehow from this the modern cutter has sprung, and bywhat interesting stag
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. prit steeved high out above thewater. On this spar she would set a jib. On the fore-stay she would carry a staysail, and above this a squaretopsail, as on the full-rigged ships. Abaft the mast wasset her mainsail, quadrilateral in shape, with a gafF atthe top and no boom. There are so many illustrationsof these vessels rigged as above that there is no possiblesuggestion that they were mere freaks. One can seehow from this the modern cutter has sprung, and bywhat interesting stages so many of her importantfeatures have been adopted. In the act of reproducingthis picture the ship alongside that which we have beendiscussing has suffered so much in detail that it cannoteasily be recognised, but it is well to mention, for theprevention of confusion, that the sprit which is seenbelongs not to the ship with a topsail that we havebeen considering, but the more obscure vessel the same picture, to the right, will be seen anotherof those yachts or vessels of state and pleasure, with. ?XI ^ ffi IUT3 O! J3 _u ^ rt c; H -OJ^ U) o ° Q o c FORE-AND-AFT RIG IN HOLLAND 97 gilded stern and lantern over the poop. Many an artistof this time loved to depict these yachts, for they foundthat the decoration of the stern especially appealed tothem, but no one has depicted them with greater abilitythan Van der Velde, the man who understood ships ifever a painter did. And now let us stop to look into the origin of theyacht, about whose beginnings a good deal of confusionseems to have centred. One hears a good deal of care-less talk that our Queen Elizabeth possessed a yacht,and that even sovereigns before her time had such aship. To make such an assertion necessitates a veryclear definition of terms. To begin with, it is certainthat not Elizabeth nor any of her preceding sovereigns,nor any of her crew, nor any of the shipbuilders everspoke of the vessel as such. Fr
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