. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. re wharves and great warehouses have been erectedto deal with the commerce of great steam liners, thegood people of Amsterdam were wont to stand on thegreen banks of the Eye and watch the striking evolu-tions of these fleets of yachts. In the reproduction (Fig. 19) of a Van der Velde anearer view will be gained of one of these yachts to theright of the picture. There she is with her guns project-ing from her hull, with her leeboards, her brave displayof bunting, and her rowing-b
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. re wharves and great warehouses have been erectedto deal with the commerce of great steam liners, thegood people of Amsterdam were wont to stand on thegreen banks of the Eye and watch the striking evolu-tions of these fleets of yachts. In the reproduction (Fig. 19) of a Van der Velde anearer view will be gained of one of these yachts to theright of the picture. There she is with her guns project-ing from her hull, with her leeboards, her brave displayof bunting, and her rowing-boat tied up astern. Theheel-rope of the sprit has been slacked off, as the vesselis at anchor, thus allowing the peak to drop; but thesail itself is kept to the mast by the usual lacing. Inthe foreground and centre of the picture is an earlytype of the smallest of the Dutch yachts, known as aboier, which were usually about eighteen or twenty feetlong. It will be observed that this type of craft wasrigged with a small spritsail like the bigger vessels, andforward she set a staysail. Both this little ship and the. FORE-AND-AFT RIG IN HOLLAND 103 bigger one behind her are seen to stow their anchorsover the bows after the manner of the full-rigged sailingships. We alluded just now to the great rake forwardwhich was possessed by the mast of some of the Dutchvessels of the time. This is especially noticeable in theship alongside the boier. One other point we mightcall attention to in connection with the yacht at theright hand side. It was the practice in the case of thebig, full-rigged vessels to cruise with a boat towingastern, so that if any of the crew fell overboard hemight have a chance of being picked up. In contem-porary pictures one always finds the painter of the boatleading to the bigger ship through one of the stem port-holes. Now, in the case of these high-pooped yachts asimilar practice was followed, and though the photo-graph in this instance has suffered through beingr
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