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 154
practice of sitting as low down in theboat as possible when under-way, and inculcate the same practice Avith his crew, makingthem all keep doAvn as Ioav as possible, as it assists the boat more than many persons 128 Sailing to Windward. would suppose, upon the principle that the lower down in the… … Thetis, no heads above deck. Son, Cowcs, I. of IV. eyes) should be seen above deck during the critical moments of a closely-contestedsailing-match. See the illustration above of a well-trained crew in this respect. The greater the force of the wind the closer the boat may be sailed to it when…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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