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Updated: May 9, 2025
It is a particularly serviceable species of craft, and, when of large size, is much used in foreign trade. The advantage of the square-rig over the fore-and-aft rig is, that the sails, being smaller and more numerous, are more easily managed, and require fewer men or "hands" to work them. Thus, as we increase the size of our vessel, the more necessity is there that it should be square-rigged.
The square-rig did well enough for deepwater voyages, but it was an awkward, lubberly contrivance for working along shore, and the colonial Yankee therefore evolved the schooner with her flat fore-and-aft sails which enabled her to beat to windward and which required fewer men in the handling.
Kettle looked up. "Here a minute, Captain." Poor Kettle's eye lit, and he came up the ladders with a boy's quickness. Image nodded toward the deserted vessel. "Fine full-rigger, hasn't she been? What do you make her out for?" "'Frisco grain ship. Stuff in bulk. And it's shifted." "Looks that way. Have you forgotten all your 'mainsail haul' and the square-rig gymnastics?"
"Keep the black imps clear, don, for a short half-hour longer, and it will be all up with them," shouted Captain Ratlin, from the rear. "I see a heavy square-rig rounding the point and standing in for an anchorage; we shall find civilized help." "That is lucky," growled the Spaniard, as he coolly shot down a negro; "our powder is fast giving out."
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