The sailing boat, a treatise on sailing boats and small yachts, their varieties of type, sails, rig, etc. With practical directions for sailing and management; also, the one-design and restricted classes, fishing and shooting boats, sailing chariots and ice yachts, foreign and colonial boats, canoes, etc., etc (1901)
Folkard, Henry Coleman, 1827-1914 · London, Edward Stanford · leaf 117
nsisting of a very small four-fold and a treble block, which will increase thepower to twelve. By this means a keel weighing 5 cwt. and upwards may be raisedand lowered with facility by the man at the helm, the utmost extent of raisingbeing up to the deck beams, wbick just brings its lower edge… … The Truant. 92 Sailing Boats with Revolving Keels. A yeak or two after the great revolution in yacht building caused by the surprisingperformances of the schooner-yacht America in British waters in 1851, there cameanother craft from New York, but of diminutive size in comparison with the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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