 If the maidtopsail be aback, the ship shoots a-head, and comes up till the diminished impulse of the drawing sails in the direction of the keel is balanced by the increased impulse on the main topsail. She lies a long while in this position driving slowly...  A System of Mechanical Philosophy - Síđa 674eftir John Robison - 1822 - 50 síđurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 síđur
...ronin-topfail. She lies a long while in this pofi'ion, •iriving flo\vly to leeward -f and (he at laft falls off by the beating of the water on her weather-bow. She falls off but little, and foon comes up again. Thus a (hip lying to is not like a mere log, but has a certain motion which keeps... | |
 | 1816 - 762 síđur
...the main-topfaiU She lies a long while in this pofition, driving (lowly to leeward ; and (he at laft falls off by the beating of the water on her weather-bow. She falls off but little, and foon comes up again. Thus a fhip lying-to is not like a mere log, but' has a certain motion which keeps... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 síđur
...the main-topfail/ She lies a long while in this pofition, driving (lowly to leeward ; and fhe-at laft falls off by the beating of the water on her weather-bow. She falls off but little, and foon comes up again. •• 1 1 Thus a fhip lying-to is not like a mere-log, but has a certain motion... | |
 | 1823 - 936 síđur
...repeated. A ship lying to in this way goes a good deal ahead and also to leeward. If the main-topsail be aback, the ship shoots ahead, and comes up till...slowly to leeward ; and she at last falls off by the heating of the water on b«r weather-bow. She falls off but liitlc, and soon comes up again. Thus a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 síđur
...repeated. A ship lying-to in this way goes a good deal a-head and also to leeward. If the main-topsail be a-back, the ship shoots a-head, and comes up till...the keel is balanced by the increased impulse on the maintopsail. She lies a long while in this position, driving slowly to leeward ; and she at last falls... | |
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