Show ships and ana sails an interesting study of sails bails op ap abara a in the august by an J En 1 lidh nautical expert robert robart 0 eelie leslie with sixty billy six sit drawings of 0 the various styles of sea wings illustrating the principles of rigging ita developed in different times and and nationalities and exigencies no more profitable diversion tor for a maritime taalo could be ba found than this comparison of the chinese piratical junks which in a strong breeze can k kepp P their d stance distance i from some of be her VT Maje lys present sun gun boats the square sails of the northern races ibo triangular ilar sails and jibs bibs of the souta the tha patch datch craft with flat tides sides tiling filing certain canal locks locka the thirty sailed battle ships of nelsons belsons Nel sons time the old cruising frigates fri Ates ili that a 0 out traced edythi evY thi DK 09 adomat allo Bt the anda da caong candlestick top to sails of the tha genoese Geu oBBO the norman chass marea mar eo which remains today to day ni as in th tha s I 1 twelfth century the deep leel english cutter cotter aud and other curione curious types the tha indebtedness of modern naval architecture to american ingen ingenuity anity is is apparent in in the tha cr sell cail which never was known until about forty years a ORO when a yankee capt captain nita set beare what h he e c called it ad a cros crossjack ajack upon the lower mizzen mast yard lint but old skippers only shook their leads beach when they saw one anti anil knew the ship ten miles oil off for a d dd d yankee of 01 american yachts the author writes 1 I believe it would be hard to if lidd i a liner instance ins tance of 0 efficient fore and aft sail bin power with every I 1 nelt inch doing its work than is is shown in the schooner seni iett t i these hese A am schooners ners owe much inch of their hair speed ena oad and buc I 1 to the wonderful out cut of their aaileen aai sails leel for which the new york river river craft and coasters are remarkable and I 1 be hove 1 lore that the now new york sail makers owed this knack of making sails set flat to their dutch and swedish an cea ce torB every inch of whose low 8 stumpy lumpy can canvas vas was I 1 and is is always set get to the greatest advantage he also says it in la to the americans that we are indebted for the contra centre board boat a sort of skimming dish that has produced a large crop of am ateer boat |