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Carter No.: 336

Handlist description: Model ship with rigging and sail

Card/Transcription No.: 336-4 


4.
SHIP NO. 336 - CONT.


(RIG CONT.) When the sail is taken in on this boat, it can be
cast loose at the foot to spill the wind, then clewed up, and
furled to the yard, and the yard then lowered. In the M.K.,
the yard had to be lowered with the sail still drawing.
Card no. 336-4 relating to Carter no. 336
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