. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. lonnein the Vendee. Like the previously mentioned craft,they are engaged almost exclusively in Ashing forsardines by means of drift-nets. It should be addedtliat in a fresli breeze the Douarnenez craft sail underforesail and a small mizzen. So also the \ endeennecraft, under similar conditions of wind, sail with fore-sail and mizzen, but with the mainmast lowered. Theyhave a total sail-area of 0830 square metres. It willbe seen that in the general rig, the old-fashioned top-sail
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. lonnein the Vendee. Like the previously mentioned craft,they are engaged almost exclusively in Ashing forsardines by means of drift-nets. It should be addedtliat in a fresli breeze the Douarnenez craft sail underforesail and a small mizzen. So also the \ endeennecraft, under similar conditions of wind, sail with fore-sail and mizzen, but with the mainmast lowered. Theyhave a total sail-area of 0830 square metres. It willbe seen that in the general rig, the old-fashioned top-sails and the jib, they are entirely influenced by thenational craft and rig of France, viz. the chasse-maree. From the lines of the hull (Fig. 122) it will beobserved that the stern-post rakes aft at a great craft measure about 8*50 metres over all, and7*48 metres on the water-line, their extreme beambeing 2-98 metres, and they draw 1*30 metres ofwater. In the evil-smelling port of St. Malo there is awealth of historical incident lying concealed in itsshipping. In the eighteenth century it was the port. 2 & ^ a Cq o s 9 ^ en § 13 ^ o 326 THE MODERN FORE-AND-AFT RIG whence the numerous privateers embarked for the pur-pose of seizing the merchant vessels of England, andit is from here that those big sailing-ships still setforth, as they have done for many a generation, tocross the broad Atlantic and engage in cod-fishing offthe Newfoundland Banks. Every one who has readKiplings Captains Courageous will remember somethingabout these French ships, and those who have visitedSt. Malo will have realised the depth of sentimentaroused each year as these ships start off from theirhome port for their long, solitary exile—perhaps toreturn, perhaps to be run down by some ocean grey-hound hurrying on through the Atlantic fog. Thereare more collisions and disasters off the Grand Banksthan ever get into the papers, and many a home inSt. Malo has been bereft of its father and sons.
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