. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. folden times. This type of pilot-boat is certainly alittle old-fashioned now, but it has been thought wellto reproduce it, as it shows more clearly the real con-nection between the things of the present and those ofyesterday. At the same time it must be rememberedthat such craft are still built on these identical have an extreme length of 8*50 metres, and anextreme beam of 2*96 metres. And so we bring our story to its close. \Miat wehave endeavoured to show throughout
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. folden times. This type of pilot-boat is certainly alittle old-fashioned now, but it has been thought wellto reproduce it, as it shows more clearly the real con-nection between the things of the present and those ofyesterday. At the same time it must be rememberedthat such craft are still built on these identical have an extreme length of 8*50 metres, and anextreme beam of 2*96 metres. And so we bring our story to its close. \Miat wehave endeavoured to show throughout these pages, byletterpress as well as by illustration, has been thehistorical connection of the different types of the fore-and-aft rig. We have begun at the beginning, andhave tried to show, step by step, how different countriesand different localities in those countries have adaptedthis rig to suit their own requirements. It is not forevery ship to engage in trans-oceanic voyaging. Thecoaster, the fisherman, the pilot, and the yacht are all BATEAU-PILOTEde MAESEUE Plan dc voiLure. <Li^ 3<Uru 9Q30. •Wr-* t • ^-^^ ^- ^-t FiG. 12!).—Sail-plan of Mauseilles black lines show the summer rig and the dotted lines the winter rig. ^y
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