. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. case of the main. Some idea of the Dunkirk type of ketch may beseen from the design which is given (Figs. Ill and 112).These craft have a total length over all of 26 metres,and they also have very flat floors, though not quiteso wall-sided, and have a little tumble-home. ThisDunkirk ketch goes far away from her home watersto fish for cod in the neighbourhood of Iceland. Hermain and mizzen are both loose-footed, and she carriesa topsail over the former. With her rig, her straight
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. case of the main. Some idea of the Dunkirk type of ketch may beseen from the design which is given (Figs. Ill and 112).These craft have a total length over all of 26 metres,and they also have very flat floors, though not quiteso wall-sided, and have a little tumble-home. ThisDunkirk ketch goes far away from her home watersto fish for cod in the neighbourhood of Iceland. Hermain and mizzen are both loose-footed, and she carriesa topsail over the former. With her rig, her straightstem and straight keel, she is in many respects similarto the older type of the Ramsgate trawler. An excellent instance of a Gravelines lugger mayalso here be seen in Figs. 110 and 113. As you lookat her sail-plan you can see how old-fashioned she is,how close akin to those days before the lugsail beganits regime in French waters when the fishing buss-shipswere three-masted square-sail craft. For look, as anexample, at the mainsail. It is nearly the shape ofthe old square-sail rather than of the modern lug. It. bo
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