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trawlers, fishing vessels are in all parts of the kingdom 

 dependent on their sails, and, in consequence, great atten- 

 tion has been paid to the rig of the vessels. 



There are probably few people, even among those who 

 are best acquainted with the fisheries, who are at all 

 aware of the great alteration which is taking place in this 

 respect. Originally the boats used as trawlers were usually 

 cutter-rigged ; the boats used for drift fishing were lugger- 

 rigged. An example of the old rig of trawlers may still be 

 found in Cornwall and in the south of England ; and the 

 Scotch and east of England drift boats are still usually 

 rigged as luggers. But experience is gradually leading to 

 the supercession of both these rigs. As the trawlers increase 

 in size, the large mainsail of the cutter is found too heavy 

 for the men to work, and in consequence the large trawlers 

 on the east coast have been built with a small mizen mast ; 

 the size of the mainsail is thereby reduced, and a small 

 manageable mizen added. A similar alteration is being 

 gradually made in the rig of the drift-boats. The old lug- 

 sail has to be lowered on each tack and re-hoisted. Such 

 an operation in large boats naturally involves a great deal of 

 labour. The lugger, therefore, is being superseded by the 

 dandy-rigged vessel ; and the dandy promises to be the 

 rig which will ultimately be adopted by all classes of 

 fishing-boats.* 



* Fishermen use a " dandy " rigged boat, a " dandy " wink, and in 

 hand-line fishing a " dandy " line. Mr. Holdsworth, in his book on 

 deep-sea fishing, says that the "dandy" wink is the small wink or 

 windlass astern of the boat used for hauling in the trawl (p. 67, note). 

 The name " dandy " line, he writes in another passage, is not very 

 intelligible .... The manner in which the line is worked by moving 

 it gently up and down points strongly, however, to " dandle," as the 

 real name (p. 154). But, if his interpretation be right in one case, why 

 should it not apply to all three ? The dandy mast would then be the 



