You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop. |
Fortunately, the skipper has both dogs, as well as kids and crew, in life jackets aboard the family sloop Off Call. |
The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger. |
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay. |
At a young age, Ramona went out on her father's small sloop and learned everything about a ship and sailing. |
While these are expensive boats they offer considerably more room than even a modern beamy sloop of this size. |