Note 628 — Chapter XIII

“The bonnet is belonging to another saile, and is commonly used with none but the missen, maine, and fore-sailes, and the sprit-sailes. I have seene, but it is very rare, a top-saile bonnet, and hold it very useful in an easie gale, quarter-winde, or before a wind. This is commonly one-third as deepe as the saile it belongs to; there is no certaine proportion, for some will make the maine-sail so deep, that with a showele bonnet, they will latch all the mast without a drabbler.” Manwayring, Sir H., “Seamen’s Dictionary presented to the late Duke of Buckingham,” Lond. 4to, 1644. See also “The Sailor’s Word-Book,” by Admiral W. H. Smyth, Lond., 1867.