"small fishing cutters"
"often worked singlehanded"
19-21 long x 9-8 ft beam
"great beam"
"The mast was stepped well into the hull and the loose-footed mainsail (...) four rows of reefs (...) A useful sized staysail was fitted with one row of reefs points (...) three jibs were usually carried: a working jib, a large light-weather jib, and a storm or spitfire jib"
very well ballasted: "some fishing cutters being built with lead keel of about 1 Ton"
"quite fast for their length"
"considerable long bowsprits"
(John Leather, The Gaff Rig Handbook)
Wonder, for example, hoists a 24 (!) square meter mainsail and a total of 40 square meters as a modern Mini Transat (!) one might say, although the comparison has a trick, as the mainsail was the sail for sailing downwind, although it is also true that they hoisted large jibs: a large light-weather jib.
"often worked singlehanded"
19-21 long x 9-8 ft beam
"great beam"
"The mast was stepped well into the hull and the loose-footed mainsail (...) four rows of reefs (...) A useful sized staysail was fitted with one row of reefs points (...) three jibs were usually carried: a working jib, a large light-weather jib, and a storm or spitfire jib"
very well ballasted: "some fishing cutters being built with lead keel of about 1 Ton"
"quite fast for their length"
"considerable long bowsprits"
(John Leather, The Gaff Rig Handbook)
Wonder, for example, hoists a 24 (!) square meter mainsail and a total of 40 square meters as a modern Mini Transat (!) one might say, although the comparison has a trick, as the mainsail was the sail for sailing downwind, although it is also true that they hoisted large jibs: a large light-weather jib.
