| Summary: | schooner n I take this opportunity of setting down the dimensions of a schooner Boat we had with us for a tender as it appears to me the most rational Plan of a 118 Pleasure Boat I have met with our People all agreeing that when her hatches were shut down it was scarcely in the Power of wind or water to sink she swimming upon the surface like a corkd bottle her schooner sails also allowing her to be workdd by fewer hands than any other Kind she has 42 feet Keel 12 feet Beam & was 5 1/2 feet Deep Pink stern deckd flush fore & aft . . . She Carried mainsail Forsail Fore stay sail & Gib with a square sail to go before the wind PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story OCT 1971 JH OCT 1971 Used I and Sup Used I Used I schooner boat, schooner-rigged, ~ box, Labrador box -(1971), p.149 118
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