Hunt's Yachting Magazine, Volume 5Hunt, 1856 - Yachting |
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... wind increased , and there was no mistake about its blowing a downright heavy gale . The time had arrived to go aboard and prepare , it looked an ugly day , and we examined every rope and spar , and found them sound and seaworthy ; and ...
... wind increased , and there was no mistake about its blowing a downright heavy gale . The time had arrived to go aboard and prepare , it looked an ugly day , and we examined every rope and spar , and found them sound and seaworthy ; and ...
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... wind when let down ; the resistance it removes , if , when running before the wind , it be raised ; the small draught of water which the vessel requires , thereby enabling her to keep close inshore out of the influence of strong tides ...
... wind when let down ; the resistance it removes , if , when running before the wind , it be raised ; the small draught of water which the vessel requires , thereby enabling her to keep close inshore out of the influence of strong tides ...
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... wind . It has been calculated that the resistance of perpendicular seams , in a sail of this size , is equal to that of a plank 10 inches broad and 60 feet long , placed on end broadside to the wind ; the luff of the sail is 66 feet ...
... wind . It has been calculated that the resistance of perpendicular seams , in a sail of this size , is equal to that of a plank 10 inches broad and 60 feet long , placed on end broadside to the wind ; the luff of the sail is 66 feet ...
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... wind , becalm at least three feet of the sail — three lazy - jacks are fitted to support the huge mass of canvas when lowering the sail . The jib is 69 feet in the hoist , and 70 in the foot . The bob - stays are of solid iron , running ...
... wind , becalm at least three feet of the sail — three lazy - jacks are fitted to support the huge mass of canvas when lowering the sail . The jib is 69 feet in the hoist , and 70 in the foot . The bob - stays are of solid iron , running ...
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... wind at an astonishing rate : but as she never sailed a public match with any of the large yachts , no opportunity occurred for recording her yachting achievements . The Margaret was a very unsightly looking craft as a yacht , and ...
... wind at an astonishing rate : but as she never sailed a public match with any of the large yachts , no opportunity occurred for recording her yachting achievements . The Margaret was a very unsightly looking craft as a yacht , and ...
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Page 486 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 542 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 256 - In this war all the kings and potentates of the earth were on one side; on the other I see no army, but a mysterious force...
Page 521 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 471 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 256 - Jesus borrowed nothing from human knowledge : only in himself are found completely the example or the imitation of his life. Neither was he a philosopher, for his proofs were miracles, and his disciples from the very first adored him. In fact, science and philosophy are powerless to salvation ; and the sole object of Jesus, in coming into the world, was to unveil the mysteries of heaven, and the laws of mind. Alexander...
Page 256 - ... faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon ! What an abyss between my deep wretchedness, and Christ's eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreading through the world ! Was that dying? Was it not rather to live ? The death of Christ is the death of God.
Page 40 - Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed. And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Page 161 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Page 176 - ... of the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel to find the tonnage ; and the breadth shall be taken from the outside of the outside plank in the broadest place in the ship, be it either above or below the main wales, exclusive of all manner of doubling planks that may be wrought upon the sides of the ship...