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 133
eaviest partis at the point of greatest lateral resistance. In yachts of the smaller class tbere is considerable variety in the arrangementof the outside ballast; one of the most successful being that of a deep wooden keelheavily weighted with longitudinal castings of lead, bolted to the lower part… … Mr. Harold Fraser. TRIMMING AND BALLASTING. The trim of a sailing-boat, as of a racing yacht, is a matter of primary importance,and cannot be disregarded without incurring the risk of disappointment and defeat. Trim depends on the accurate adjustment of the ballast, whether inside the boat…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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