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
t mode of preserving the stability of sailiug-boats by means ofoutside ballast, and had the great advantage of dispensing with all kinds of insideballast; and thereby, if fairly designed, affording more space for internal and cabinaccommodation in the larger boats; but, with a view to racing,… … The profile shows a close imitation of the Herreshoff type of fin-and-bulb keel bya British designer. 113 Q The Sailing-Boat. Boats of extreme breadth and shallowness with fin-and-bulb keels were constructed;some of them the merest skimming-dishes; hut they nevertheless sailed very fast insmooth…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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