The Elements of Sailmaking: Being a Complete Treatise on Cutting-out Sails, According to the Most Approved Methods in the Merchant Service ...F.W. Norie & Wilson, 1847 - 167 pàgines |
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The Elements of Sailmaking: Being a Complete Treatise on Cutting-out Sails ... Robert Kipping Visualització completa - 1847 |
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11 cloths 18 inches 66 hounded 66 two arms 9 inches after-leech bolt-rope boom bowlines bowsprit breadth of cloth buntline-cloths centre of effort centre of gravity cleats cringles depth Dimensions for Cutting-out ditto ditto driver equal feet 6 inches find the number find the quantity Foot Foot Head foot gores Foot Head Slack foot-gore fore-course fore-leech foremast foresail gaff Given the length half head and foot Head Foot Head Slack Gores Head-gores height hoist holes hollow hounded 66 hounded length leech Leech-gores leech-linings luff main-course main-topsail mainmast mainsail mainyard mast cloths Mast Foot Foot mast-leech middle middle-band mizen mizenmast number of cloths parcelled and served pin and pin Plate Quantity of Canvass reef reef-band roach rope Rule sail sailmakers seams selvage sewed ship square cloths stay Stay-gores staysails stuck studdingsails Subtract tabled tack top-lining topgallant sail topgallant-sails topmast topsail-yards topsails trysails water-line wind yard-arms
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Pàgina 116 - Rule ] . Multiply the base by the perpendicular height, and half the product will be the area.
Pàgina 161 - SNOW ; a vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and foremasts of a ship, and a third small mast, just abaft the main-mast, carrying a sail nearly similar to a ship's mizzen.
Pàgina 35 - From eight times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc, and divide the remainder by 3, and the quotient will be the length of the arc, nearly.
Pàgina 130 - A quadrilateral sail bent on a yard which hangs obliquely to the mast at one-third of its length forward of the mast.
Pàgina 156 - GASKET ; a sort of plaited cord fastened to the sail-yards of a ship, and used to furl or tie up the sail firmly to the yard by wrapping it round both.
Pàgina 122 - Race shall be ascertained in the manner following : the length shall be taken in a straight line at the deck, from the fore-part of the stem, to the after-part of the sternpost ; from which deducting the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the...
Pàgina 162 - TARPAWLING; a broad piece of canvass, well daubed with tar, and used to cover the hatchways of a ship at sea, to prevent the penetration of the rain or sea-water which may at times rush over the decks.
Pàgina 161 - Sprit. — A small boom, pole, or spar which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner.
Pàgina 4 - ... yard, mast, or stay, throughout its whole length. The latter, or those which are four-sided, are either extended by yards, as the principal sails of a ship, or by yards and booms, as the studding sails...
Pàgina 161 - Let us now add that he speaks of the sloop as "a small vessel furnished with one mast, the mainsail of which is attached to a gaff above, to the mast on its foremost edge, and to a boom below, by which it is occasionally shifted to either quarter. It differs from a cutter by having a fixed steering [sic] bowsprit and a jib-stay, nor are the sails generally so large in proportion to the size of the vessel.