SAiles.
To every Yard, in the ship, there belongs a saile, and they are called after the name of those yards, whereunto they belong:
The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...
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- The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...
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- Manwayring, Henry, Sir, 1587-1653.
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- London :: Printed by G. M. for John Bellamy ...,
- 1644.
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All head-sailes (that is, those that doe belong to the fore-mast and bolt-sprit) doe keep the ship from the wind, and are used to flat the ship: All after-sailes, that is the mast and missen-sailes, doe keep her to the wind; and therefore few ships are so well conditioned, as to Steere-quarter-winds with one saile; but must have one after-saile, and an other head-saile (as it were to countermaund one an other) yet some ships will steere with their maine-top-saile only: at sea, they call a ship, a saile: as when they discry a ship, they say, A saile, A saile. The sailes are cut in proportion, as the Masts and yards are in length, and bredth, one to another (excepting the Missen and sprit-saile) The Mis∣sen-saile, is cut by the Leetch, twice as deepe as the Mast is long from the Deck to the Hownds, and the sprit-saile is ¼ as deep as the fore-sailes.