SAILING CRAFT 105 



shows that the flukes have broken clear. The 

 anchor is then hove up, catted, and fished. 



' All hands make sail ! ' sings out the mate. 

 The wind is nicely on the starboard quarter, 

 that is, abaft the beam and forward of the 

 stern, which gives the best chance to every 

 sail. A wind dead aft, blanketing more than 

 half the canvas, is called a lubber's wind. A 

 soldier's wind is one which comes square on 

 the beam, and so 'makes equally plain sailing 

 out and back again. What sail a full-rigged 

 ship can carry ! The Yankee Great Republic 

 could spread nearly one whole acre of canvas 

 to the breeze. Another Yankee, the R. C. 

 Rickmers, the largest sailing vessel in the 

 world to-day, exceeds this. But her tonnage 

 is much greater, more than eleven thousand 

 gross, and her rig is entirely different. A full- 

 rigged clipper ship might have twenty-two 

 square sails, though it was rare to see so 

 many. In addition she would have studding- 

 sails to wing her square sails farther out. 

 Then, there were the triangular jibs forward 

 and the triangular staysails between the masts, 

 with the quadrangular spanker like an aerial 

 rudder on the lower mizzenmast. All the nine 

 staysails would have the loose lower corner 

 made fast to a handy place on deck by a sheet 



