{"id":438,"date":"2011-12-13T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:56:44","slug":"david-steel-on-lug-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"David Steel on Lug Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship<\/em> by David Steel, London: 1794, pp. 109-110.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Boat’s Lug-Sail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This sail is quadrilateral, and made of canvas No. 7 or 8.\u00a0 The head is bent to the yard, which hangs obliquely to the mast at one-third of its length, and extends within 4 inches of the cleats.<\/p>\n

The fore-leech is as deep as the length of the head, and the after-leech is longer than the fore-leech by nearly half the depth of the fore-leech.<\/p>\n

Gores.<\/em>\u00a0 Two or three cloths are gored on the fore-leech, and an even gore of 6 inches per cloth is made on the head.\u00a0 The foot is gored with a sweep; the cloth at the clue being cut with a three-inch short gore, the next cloth is square, and the cloths from thence to the tack are gored at the rate of six or eight inches per cloth.<\/p>\n

Two small holes are made in each cloth in the head.<\/p>\n

This sail has two reefs parallel with the foot; the upper one is half-way up the fore-leech, and the other is equally distant from that and the foot.\u00a0 Sometimes reef-bands, three or four inches broad, are put on at the reefs, but when these are not used, a small hole is made in every seam instead of them.<\/p>\n

Reef-hanks are used instead of reef points; for which see page 27.<\/p>\n

Small cringles are made on the leeches at each reef; earing-cringles are made at the nock and peek; and 10 or 12 strands in the length of the rope are seized at the tack and clue.<\/p>\n

To find the quantity of canvas, refer to Rule IX. page 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship by David Steel, London: 1794, pp. 109-110. A Boat’s Lug-Sail. This sail is quadrilateral, and made of canvas No. 7 or 8.\u00a0 The head is bent to the yard, which hangs obliquely to the mast at one-third of its length, and extends within 4 inches of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}