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 119
are not suitable for a deep-bodied boat, orfor any but small shallow yachts and sailing boats. Our enterprising cousins, theAmericans, seem to rely upon them for yachts of any and every size, as they fit themto some of their larger sized racing yachts : for instance, the American yacht… … It is, hoArever, considered very questionable if such an adjunct is of any materialassistance to a large, deep-bodied vessel. At the period before alluded to, 1852,down to some ten or twenty years later, small yachts with revolving keels were moreor less popular in British waters; but the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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