Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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; then I canappreciate the application of the utter-ance, See, how she scoons ! The handiness of the fore-and-aft rig,divided into two nearly equal portions,made that arrangement of canvas popu-lar from the start; and now nearly allof the coastwise fishing and carryingvessels are of the schooner family. Ves-sels of from 200 to 250 feet in length, orfrom 1,000 to 1,500 tons burden, whicha few years ago would have been barkor ship rigged, are now built as threeor four-masted schooners ; and occa-sionally we are surprised on the wateryway by the appearance of such a vesselas the five-masted schooner GovernorAmes, ouiltin Waldoboro, Maine, 1888 ;245 feet long, 49.6 broad, 21 feetdraught, and 1,690 tons burden. The advantages to the coaster of thefore-and aft over the square rig are :first, economy of hands in working;second, quickness in handling, andthird, windward power. A well ap-pointed three-masted schooner with asmall steam-engine and winches forhoisting sail, heaving up anchor, and
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Photo J. S. Jolmston, New York. EMERALD. 5° OUTING FOR OCTOBER. handling cargo, can be worked with athird of the crew required on a bark ofthe same size. In working in a crowdedthroroughfare, or tacking in and out offrequent harbors, the handiness of thefore-and-aft rigged vessel with her sailsflinging from side to side at the helms-mans will is an obvious advantage.Along the rocky shores of Maine andNew Brunswick, one meets fleets offishing boats in which the jibs are dis-pensed with, the foremast being steppedin the bow, and whose two sails arenearly or exactly of the same size. Aboat of this sort is called a periauger orpirogue. It is ugly to look at, but it ishandy for one or two men to manage.While there seems to be no limit tothe scope of utility of the fore-and-aftrig, I think its picturesqueness belongsonly to the conven-tional twomastedschooner. The peri-auger is unsightly onthe one hand, so is thethree-masted schooneron the other. But tomy mind there is noth-ing afloat less

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