The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 337
s fit tohoist canvas upon her, and as there are two reefs in the sail, itcan be very much reduced, if necessary, in a fresh wind. Bothin this and the preceding boat, it is desirable to sit down in close to the coast by boats ol this size, by choosing settledweather for the trip, and she would be… … the bottom when under sail. Fig. 5 cannot be expected to domuch in beating to windward, unless she has a good tide to helpher, but she will run and reach well under favourable circum-stances. She can be pulled with two oars also with a lightcoxswain, but as she would be very deep, she would ship…
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