Mike
13-11-2009, 01:12 AM
I stumbled across a rather interesting article on the Wooden Boat Forum the other day that gave some advice to those who would like to know how to sail a boat using the lug yawl rig.
With some considerable difficulty, I was able to snatch a few pics from that site. Let me first attribute the article to James McMullen who drew the following sketches up. They are, I believe, perfectly correct, if a little rough and ready on some pages. James invites readers (here (http://www.mavc2002.com/cyforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=668)) to download the pics, so he obviously would have no objections to me having done so - and presumably he would wish it made known that he holds the copyright on them.
Unfortunately, the site on which they are all stored (here (http://sports.webshots.com/album/558102212zLLPQv?vhost=sports)) makes it rather difficult to actually download 'em. However, there are ways around that problem, which I have employed so as to post them here for everyone's enlightenment. Feel free to download them from here if you value the information provided by James.
And now to those pics:
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I have not sailed a lug yawl myself but these seem to me to make perfectly good sense. Most of them, however, are just basic knowledge to anyone who has experience sailing various different rigs.
My thanks - and respect - to James, who hails from Anacortes, WA, in the USA.
Best wishes
With some considerable difficulty, I was able to snatch a few pics from that site. Let me first attribute the article to James McMullen who drew the following sketches up. They are, I believe, perfectly correct, if a little rough and ready on some pages. James invites readers (here (http://www.mavc2002.com/cyforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=668)) to download the pics, so he obviously would have no objections to me having done so - and presumably he would wish it made known that he holds the copyright on them.
Unfortunately, the site on which they are all stored (here (http://sports.webshots.com/album/558102212zLLPQv?vhost=sports)) makes it rather difficult to actually download 'em. However, there are ways around that problem, which I have employed so as to post them here for everyone's enlightenment. Feel free to download them from here if you value the information provided by James.
And now to those pics:
553 554 555
556 557 558
I have not sailed a lug yawl myself but these seem to me to make perfectly good sense. Most of them, however, are just basic knowledge to anyone who has experience sailing various different rigs.
My thanks - and respect - to James, who hails from Anacortes, WA, in the USA.
Best wishes