An Improved Outhaul Applicable to Yachts and Small Sailing Craft.
Year: 1886

page_text: An Improved Outhaul Applicable to Yachts and Small
Sailing Craft.
I, ALFRED BURGOINE, of "Riverside" Lower Teddington Road, Hampton Wick,
in the County of Middlesex, Boat Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED OUTHAUL, APPLICABLE TO YACHTS, AND SMALL
SAILING CRAFT," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed to facilitate the shifting or hauling in or out of the
'jib' or foresail of a yacht or other sailing boat carrying a jib or foresail, and is
especially adapted to the smaller class of such boats in many of which the opera-
tion is attended with difficulty and often of danger if performed in the usual manner.
My Invention consists in the employment of a shackle block which by means of
a pin is attached to the tack of the foresail; a pin or bar is also rivetted to the
sides of the block to prevent it from pinching, thereby allowing the sheave to work
freely and preventing the shackle from dropping off outhaul when the pin is unscrewed
and the block detached from the tack of the foresail. I also employ a ring or
traveller which carries a heart thimble and a bow and sheave which acts as a lead
or guide for the outhaul.
From the foregoing description it will readily be understood that the tack of
the foresail or jib being attached to the shackle block, a person standing on the
after part of the vessel can either haul the sail in or out without going before the
mast which is very desirable in small boats and particularly when in charge of
a single individual.

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I ALFRED BURGOINE of Riverside, Lower Teddington, Hampton Wick, in the
County of Middlesex Boat Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention is designed to facilitate the shifting or hauling in or out of the
"jib" or foresail of a yacht or other sailing boat carrying a "jib" or foresail and is
especially adapted to the smaller class of such boats in many of which the operation
is attended with difficulty and often with danger if performed in the usual manner.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood I have hereto
annexed a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and shewing the difference between
my improved method of manipulation and the old one.
Fig. 1. represents (a portion of the bow of) a yacht with sailor unhooking fore-
sail or jib from traveller, in the usual manner. Fig. 2. represents the method of
lowering the sail on my improved safety plan the operator standing on the leeward
side of the mainsail.
The details of the apparatus are shewn in Figs. 3 & 4 which I now proceed to
describe. A is a shackle block which by means of a pin B is attached to the tack
of the foresail at C. a pin or bar a is rivetted to the sides of the block to prevent
it from pinching, thereby allowing the sheave D to work freely and preventing
the shackle from dropping off outhaul when the pin B is unscrewed and the block
detached from the tack of the foresail. E is a ring or traveller which carries a
heart thimble F. and also a bow G and sheave H which acts as a lead or guide
for the outhaul J. From the foregoing description it can be readily understood
that the tack of the foresail or "jib" being attached to the shackle block A, a
person standing in the after part of the vessel can either haul the sail in or out
without going before the mast which is very desirable in small boats and particularly
when in charge of a single individual.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improvements in apparatus for manipulating the "jib" or foresail of a yacht
or other small sailing vessel substantially as herein shewn and described.