The Archive · 1937

High Sail Plan

Its sail plan is high and narrow and well inboard, the lower luff of the headsail is sheeted well abaft the stem head, and the after end of the mainsail boom is approximately 7 feet inboard from the rudder.

The main sail is three and a half times as long as it is wide at its foot on the boom.

The approximate measurements of the one designs are 43 ft. over all 28 ft. water line, 7 ft, beam and 5 ft. draught, The sail area is 323 sq. ft They have proved splendid boats in rough waters off the coasts of Germany and Scandinavia and should The two senior league matches will see the American Club entertaining the Foreign Y.M.C.A. and the Fourth Marines acting as hosts to the Shang-kai Race Club. In the junior category the American Club is expected to visit the Foreign "Y." the Marines making their trip to the Race Club, and the Columbians journeying to play the U.S.S. Augusta

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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