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Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing

Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · 1912 · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · 130 pictures

A practical instruction manual on motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing, edited by naval architect and illustrator Charles G. Davis for boy readers and published by Harper & Brothers in New York and London in 1912. The pictures are pen-and-ink diagrams of hulls, rigs and sail plans in flat silhouette, with hatched decks and wavy waterlines, useful as clean nautical profiles and rigging line work.

Boats and boating

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0