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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 200

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st yacht-racing men have gradu-ated in sailing canoes. As before said, it would be too long amatter to give description and drawings of thenumerous types and models of sailing canoes ofthe present day, or of all their fittings. I there-fore confine myself to giving a scale drawing ofthe latest… … Fig 1-iut there always have been men who would■ spoil a good ship by the saving of a haporthof tar. The use of the canoe-jawl is that she can(or she is faulty in design if she cant) do allthe sea-going work which can be got out of asmall yacht, say, up to three or four tons ; shecan accommodate her…

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