 ... uncertain ; for the action of the water on the rudder may not be nearly equal to its contrary action on the lee-quarter ; in which case the action of the wind on the headsails may not be sufficient to make up the difference. When this is...  A System of Mechanical Philosophy - Síða 669eftir John Robison - 1822 - 50 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 síður
...obferved, when the (hip goes aftern without «hanging her pofition, we muft immediately throw the headfails completely aback, and put the helm down again, which will pay off the fliip's head from the wind «nough to enable us to fill the fails again on the fame tack, to try our... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 síður
...obferved, when the fliip goes aftern without changing her pofition, we muft immediately throw the hudfails completely aback, and put the helm down again, which will pay off the (hip's head from the wind enough to enable us to fill the fails again on the fame tack, to try our... | |
 | 1816 - 762 síður
...obfervcd, when the fhip goes aftern without changing her potilion, we mud immediately throw the headArts completely aback, and put the helm down again, which will pay off the fhip's head from the wind enough to enable us to fill the fails again on the fame tack, to try our... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 síður
...when the fliip goes aftern without changing her polition, we rnuft immediately throw the headfails completely aback, and put the helm down again, which will pay off the fhip's head from #he wind enough to enable us to fill the fails again pn the fame tack, to try our... | |
 | 1823 - 936 síður
...the action of the wind on the headsails may not be sufficient to make up the difference. When tills is observed, when the ship goes astern, without changing...aback, and put the helm down again, which will pay ofl' the ship's head from the wind enough to enable us to fill the sails again on the same tack, to... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 síður
...headsails may not be sufficient to make up the difference. When this is observed, when the ship goes astem without changing her position, we must immediately...the same tack, to try our fortune again ; or we must boxhaul the ship, in the manner to be described by and by. Such is the ordinary process of tacking... | |
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