The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution (1911)
Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company; London, Seeley and co., limited · leaf 120
s the Dutchmen could not allow theirships to draw very much water, and so the use of lee-boards was brought in, by which the depth of the shipcould be increased for sailing better in deep water.Even up till to-day the Dutch cutters and sloops havealtered scarcely at all since the seventeenth… … A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Yacht It was the Dutch who built the first yachts, and in 1660 presented our Charles II. with thefirst yacht ever seen in English waters. In the design of her hull the yacht retained many ofthe features of the contemporary big sailing-ships. AND AFTER fore-and-aft rig,…
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