1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: Benjamin Baillie
From Graces Guide
70. BAILLIE, BENJAMIN, 118 Wardour Street, Soho — Inventor.
Model of a vessel, with improved rigging, mast, and sails. Intended to give to a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, or to a lugger, the advantage over one square-rigged, in working to windward. The sails being bent to booms, which are pivoted or hung by their own leverage, will adjust themselves to the required angle, without the labour required to brace the yards, as in square-rigged vessels; at the same time, being brought up to windward by the booms, will lesson the pressure to leeward incidental to ordinary fore-and-aft rigged vessels.
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