Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I have to thank Messrs. Harper for allowing this article to be incorporated with the present work. Most of it has however been entirely rewritten and rearranged, with much additional matter. In treating a subject of such vast dimensions as the build and rig of the ships and boats of the past, I have found it quite impossible to do so in a modern, exhaustive, or even in a systematic way; so that, to use a family motto, I have-merely tried to grip fast or hold on to those few facts which, during many years devoted to the study of marine stores, I have chanced to fall in with, in reading; painting, or travelling, or from observation and experience afloat, or when at work among practical boat-builders in the boat-yard, build ing, repalring, or fitting out my own boats.