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* An inch strake as a wale should be worked above the water-line at the broadest part of the boat; this will make the boat the required width.

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* As they only have one spinnaker, it has to be set on the bowsprit occasionally; hence the length of the spinnaker boom is usually about the length from the mast to the bowsprit end.

+ With a reef down the boats are frequently sailed without a jib, the bowsprit being run in and stowed.

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18 6

ITCHEN SAILING PUNTS.

Until within the last three years, the boats of this class sailing in the local match for punts 13ft. long, were little better than ordinary rowing skiffs rigged with a foresail on a short bumpkin, and a sprit mainsail without a boom. Now that a club has been formed at Northam, giving prizes for boats of the above length, very great improvements have been made, not only in the shape of the punts, but in their sail plan. They are all of the same length, viz.: 13ft., hence no time allowance is required, and have for such little craft very heavy lead keels, some being 3 cwt

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The ballast usually consists of iron pigs with slings in them, as shifting is allowed; however, a few of the new boats have shot bags. As will be seen from the sail plan, they have a long mast and carry a sprit mainsail with a boom, this sprit is very long, in fact much longer than the boat; they have a bowsprit on which they set their foresail. This bowsprit is made long enough to set the spinnaker as a jib; they have a small boom also to set the spinnaker on when before the wind. The punts are mostly owned by foremen of the various building yards, ship

wrights, and masters of racing yachts. The number of races for such boats in Southampton Water must be very numerous, as the two most successful boats in 1878, viz., the Laura, owned by Mr. Hatcher's foreman, and the Tritonia, owned by one of the Messrs Payne, flew some fourteen winning colours each at the end of the season, after the fashion of racing yachts.

The lead keels, also the pieces of false wood keel fore and abaft this lead, are put on with nuts and screws, and can easily be taken off, leaving the boat a serviceable punt (see Plate XXIII.)

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The rig of the boats is shown by Fig. 98. The bobstay is a single part set up to the bowsprit by a lanyard.

The halyards are worked as shown by Fig. 99. In A, the head of the foresail is shown by 1; the standing part of the halyard is put over the mast at 2. The hauling part is rove through a cheek block; see 3 on B, which is the mast head viewed from astern. The jib, or spinnaker halyards are similarly fitted; the standing part is at 4 in A, the hauling part is rove through 5 in B. The main halyard is fast to a mast traveller and then passes over a sheave in the mast at 6 in B. In Ireland, at Kingstown and Queenstown, a sailing boat something like the Itchen punt is in use. They are built to compete in a class not exceeding 18ft. in length. A novel feature in these boats is that, when not racing, they have counters screwed on to their transoms. Counters are not allowed whilst they are racing.

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