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 132
w indeedthat, if it can be placed outside at the bottom of the keel, it will be the more effective. And as to (b)—the scientific adjustment of the ballast. This is a matter of skill,particularly in a boat of the racing fleet; for, unless the ballast be placed in properposition, the best sailing… … Beien &■ Son, Cowes,~I. of IV. lead or iron, securely placed on each side of the keelson beneath the floor of the boat;but when it is intended to carry on her as a racing boat, it will be necessary toballast her upon modern, scientific principles. And as to this, it has been known formore than…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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