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 152
or the young helmsman to attend to in sailing to wind-ward with effect is to watch the fore-leech of the main-sail or that part nearest the mast.The boat should be sailed as close to the wind as possible without shaking this part ofthe sail, which is always the first to quiver to the breeze, and… … West &> Son, Soutlisea. A Lady of the West steering her yacht to victory. is a bad practice to steer by if. Some steer by the ripple on the water, which may beall very well when the wind is light, but at best an uncertain guide. The young boat-sailor who wishes to become skilful in the art…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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