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 138
llast, particularly that of lead affixed to the keel,was the primary initiation of bulb-keels, which began with lead castings in longitudinalform bolted to the outer sides of deep wooden keels (as in the Semibreve); the enormousadvantage of which in enabling a boat to carry a pressure of sail in a… … remarkable success. In 1893 British yacht and boat builders introduced a similar typewith steel plate and leaden bulb, which, for a time, took the place of the wooden keeland lead bulb before mentioned. The introduction of this form of keel by British designers was the result of manyexperiments as…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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