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has an iron centre-board, and her ballast consists of four iron half-hundredweights, two on either side of the centre-board trunk. The lug is laced to a boom and yard, and though a large portion of the sail is before the mast, the sail has not to be dipped when the boat goes about, as is the case with the dipping-lug. It will be observed that the yard has a high peak, and that it is slung at about one-third of its length from its lower end. In many boats of this class the halyard is fastened to an iron mast-traveller, to which the yard is hooked; but one serious objec