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 155
and it then becomes necessary to haul the fore-sail aweather, to pay her head off, or themain sheet must be eased to allow her to veer off into the wind. In crossing a tide-way there is always a tendency, more or less according to thestrength of the tide, to cause the boat to make lee-way,…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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