. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. g at Rotterdam, and five years later moved inlandto Gouda. It will be noticed that the busses have now becomemore powerful ships, and that they carry a mizzen aswell as main and fore. If we were to take away thefore and mizzen we should have in respect of rig andhull almost an exact replica of the Humber keel whichis so familiar a sight to Yorkshiremen and those wholive near the Trent. The buss—she spelled her namewith all sorts of variations that included buys, huschcybuze, and
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. g at Rotterdam, and five years later moved inlandto Gouda. It will be noticed that the busses have now becomemore powerful ships, and that they carry a mizzen aswell as main and fore. If we were to take away thefore and mizzen we should have in respect of rig andhull almost an exact replica of the Humber keel whichis so familiar a sight to Yorkshiremen and those wholive near the Trent. The buss—she spelled her namewith all sorts of variations that included buys, huschcybuze, and bids—was sometimes called a flibot though,strictly speaking, the vlie-boot or flibot was a smallflute of a size not exceeding 100 tons and of around stern. The flibot proper was a deep, big-bodied craft lacking both foremast and flute, or as she was sometimes called, a pink, wasalso a big-bellied craft, used as a storeship or fortransport purposes. She was a three-masted shipand square-rigged, except, of course, for the lateenon her mizzen. But the buss-ship as we here see her was square-. ORIGIN OF THE FORE-AND-AFT RIG 55 rigged without topsails or topgallants or lateen. Shewas usually of about 62 feet long and 13 feet beamand 8 feet deep. She had cabins both forward andaft, the former serving for the galley. These shipswere commanded by a master or patron—as theFrench to-day call their skippers, if you care to lookat the memorial stones to those fishermen or pilotswho have lost their lives off Calais—and the crewsof the busses were provided with food in the formof biscuits, dried fish, salt butter, and oatmeal. Someof the bigger busses measured 71 feet long, and cost£2325 to build, not including the heavy sails were of Holland cloth, the mainsail withits bonnets—which were laced according to mediaevalfashion along the foot of the sail after the manner ofthe modern Norfolk wherry—measuring 15 ells longand 13 ells wide. The foresail
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