Boat Sailing and Racing; containing Practical Instructions for Bending and Setting Sails, Trimming, Steering and Handling Boats under all Circumtances of Wind and Weather; descriptions of some interesting and instructive foreign Rigs also some useful hints on Racing, with a View to Winning (1885)
Fitzgerald, C. C. P. Capt. · Griffin and Co. (Portsmouth) · leaf 70
“Splendid boats on a wind, but very bad to “run: steered by the sheets and a long tiller; “ beached stern first and then put on wheels and “taken above high water mark: they are only “used in fine weather, carry a great deal of ballast, “and if they should happen to meet with an “accidgnt and fill,…
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