. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. hichis very Dutch, and after looking at some hundreds ofmodern Dutch fore-and-afters, I do not remember tohave seen a single one that used the hoops we use inEngland and America for keeping the lufF of themainsail to the mast. The advantage quickly mani-fests itself when leaving a crowded lock, and youwant to get a little way on the ship, but not toomuch You can easily trice up the tack, and, further-more, instead of allowing one hoop to be doing morework than the others, and so
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. hichis very Dutch, and after looking at some hundreds ofmodern Dutch fore-and-afters, I do not remember tohave seen a single one that used the hoops we use inEngland and America for keeping the lufF of themainsail to the mast. The advantage quickly mani-fests itself when leaving a crowded lock, and youwant to get a little way on the ship, but not toomuch You can easily trice up the tack, and, further-more, instead of allowing one hoop to be doing morework than the others, and so pulling the sail out ofshape, you can by means of the lacing distribute thestrain evenly over the whole luff. A yachts trysail is laced to the mast in much thesame way as the Dutchmen of yesterday and to-daylace their mainsails. It will be noticed, however,from this picture that there is a good deal of driftbetween the lufF of the sail and the mast, and thisdefect will be found also in the Dutch hoogarts whenwe come to speak of her. On the contrary, the Dutchbarge has the lufF of her mainsail right close up to. IN NORTHERN EUROPE 75 the mast. Very interesting, too, is the foremost shipin Arentzens picture, which shows that even in thosedays the germ of the modern spinnaker idea wasprevalent. The little sloop is running dead beforethe wind, and the mainsail has been eased off in theusual manner. But the headsail has been let go atthe tack, and brought aft so as to goose-wing thecraft. Your modern rater does much the same thingwhen she is racing without spinnaker, with the excep-tion that she usually has a light boom along the footof the foresail. We come now to another interesting developmentof the fore-and-aft rig which is well worth our atten-tion. It is generally but erroneously thought thatthe schooner developed directly from the cutter bymerely causing the addition of another mast. Thisis not so. The schooner really existed before thecutter, and contemporary with, or but l
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