Matt followed Katherine's lead and moved out onto the tiny foredeck of the sloop. |
A small sloop approaches the shore ferrying a group of passengers from Gloucester. |
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. |
When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side. |
The 31 was offered as a sloop or with a double headsail arrangement commonly called a cutter. |
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay. |