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 137
culiarity with regard to thelatter being, that she had as a sort of spinnaker boom, a curved brass pipe pivoted tothe front part of the mast (as shoAvn in the illustration) for booming oat the foresail oneither side when running before the wind. Fin-and-Bulb Keels.—The modern centre-plate and… … Fin-and-bulb keel. keelson; the lead ballast consisting of two longitudinal castings usually in the shape of asplit cigar (or torpedo), each weighing several hundredweights more or less, according tothe size of the boat for which intended. The two sections forming the bulb are bolted tothe metal…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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