THE YAWL OR DANDY. 



259 



excepted) both by amateurs and professional fishermen, as the 

 mainsail is generally used without a boom, or if a boom is used 

 it is not a fixture, as in the cutter, but fitted to ship and unship 

 when required. 



This rig has of late years found increasing favour with 

 yachting men, even for vessels of large size, as the diminished 

 weight of the mainsail renders them more manageable. In 

 large vessels the mainsail is permanently bent on to the boom, 

 as in cutters. 



FIG. 82. The Yawl or Dandy. 



Yachts of this rig for fishing purposes often run up to the 

 size of fifteen tons builders' measurement, in which case they 

 are not decked over entirely, but have a large open well, in the 

 edges or coamings of which a wink or winch is fixed wherewith 

 to get up the anchor, for which a hawser-laid rope is used, as 

 being more manageable than a chain for great depths. These 

 vessels should not have a water-way or side-deck more than 

 twenty inches wide, or it will be inconvenient to stand in the 

 well to haul the lines. If they exceed twenty inches wide, they 

 should not be less than three feet, as you can then fish from the 

 deck ; and that you may conveniently do so, an additional rail 

 should be fixed by iron stanchions through the top-rail and 



S 2 



