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 148
is to windward, or on a reach, bowse down the main-tack ; if before the wind,the main-tack may be cast off and the sheet given freely. If on slipping from the moorings among crowded shipping, it is necessary to turnthe boat quickty and there is but very small space in which to do it, having set one…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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