Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 239
about seven or eight feet of the afterend touches the water. In this position she rushes hitherand thither with her high-speed motor humming like abumble-bee. No round-bottomed boat could stand rightside up if she were driven at such a speed, and boats flat,or nearly flat-bottomed in their after… … Fig. 4 rough water the dory, long used by the hardy fishermen inthe Newfoundland bank fisheries, has proved itself to bethe safest kind of small boat. Here the bottom is flat, but much smaller, and madepointed at each end. Both the ends and the sides flare out 223 BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS…
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