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 136
ad, but of all kinds the most expensive ; it some-times costs more than the hull of the boat. Lead is, however, preferable where expenseis no material object, as it may be stowed away in a very small compass, giving moreroom for accommodation, and rendering the boat stiffer under sail than by any… … Semibreve, designed by Captain du Boulay. A modeen mode of ballasting small yachts and sailing-boats is by a fixed fin-keel ofgun-metal, or lead, more or less thick according to the size of the boat, bolted totheunder part of the keelson on the outside, and extending the whole length of the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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