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 139
ooth water under strong winds, and proved great prize winners. Undoubtedly, the leverage of outside ballast is so great, that many of the fin andbulb type are, practically, uncapsizable under sail. But boats with fixed centre-platesand bulb keels must keep to deep water, or they come to grief: for,… … The profile shows the Sibbick type of steel fin and cigar-shaped leaden bulb. TheSilva, a famous boat and highly successful prize winner of the 36-foot L.B. class, was aboat of this type. Every alteration in the mode and conditions of measurement has, apparently,developed new exaggerations or…
Sailing · Boats and boating
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
