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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 135

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In ballasting a boat for sailing in a sea-way it is essential that the centre ofbuoyancy be not too high. If it is, the boat will not only be unable to do her best, butthe motion of the surface water will cause her to plunge, roll, and strain in a manner shewrould not do if the centre of buoyancy…

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