On yacht sailing : a simple treatise for beginners upon the art of handling small yachts and boats (1904)
Day, Thomas Fleming, 1861-1927 · New York : Rudder Pub. Co. · leaf 15
le skill to sail them; as a fact, youdont sail them; you simply steer them. The old-fashioned, inside ballast, capsizable, long-keel craft wasa very different proposition, and it required consider-able skill to handle such properly. It is for this reasonthat the best sailors we have ever had… … WIND ABEAM. *3 struction and weight that even if filled she will float.It is better to have a boat that requires little or no ballast.If in a place where the water is generally smooth, theLark type is an excellent craft to learn in; if where itis rough, get one of those cheap sailing dories.…
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