. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. ails and English designersbegan to evolve better hulls. For a time, from about1852 to 1865, there was a craze for American centre-board craft, but there was also a craze for schooners,thanks to the Americas success. In the sixties theyawl rig also became the fashion, following the popu-larity of the schooner, for it provided a half-way stagebetween the schooner and the single-masted cutter. But it is when we come to study the ten yearsthat are covered by the dates 1870 and 1880
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. ails and English designersbegan to evolve better hulls. For a time, from about1852 to 1865, there was a craze for American centre-board craft, but there was also a craze for schooners,thanks to the Americas success. In the sixties theyawl rig also became the fashion, following the popu-larity of the schooner, for it provided a half-way stagebetween the schooner and the single-masted cutter. But it is when we come to study the ten yearsthat are covered by the dates 1870 and 1880 that webegin to see a still greater activity. It had beenpreceded by a fine fleet of cutter yachts that includedthe famous Oimara, built in 1867, and still used, butas a houseboat in Poole Harbour, above bridge. Herspars were all big, and her great topmast and lengthybowsprit were characteristic of that period. Thetonnage of this vessel is 135. The Aline andEgeria also belong to this period, the former beinghistoric as having been the first yacht to discard therake which was always given to the mast THE FORE-AND-AFT RIG 211 The seventies saw a real awakening in yachting—a new birth as it were. There were big schooners,cutters, and yawls, and yacht-building yards werebusily employed. It was during this period that thefamous forty-tonners came into being that numberedin their class among others the well-known Foxhoundand Bloodhound. The last mentioned has attractedan increased amount of attention by her return toracing during this twentieth century. She wasrecently altered by Fife, and has done remarkablywell in handicap races when we recollect her greatage as compared with modern flyers. Under thenew modification the Bloodhound was given a raisedsail-plan, and the ballast was brought lower addition to this the forefoot was cut away, andshe was thus made quicker in stays. But besides these celebrated forty-tonners we mustcall attention to the equally famous
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