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 156
points be first carefully attended to—such as ballasting,rigging, setting and shifting sails, trimming the sheets, &c, &c, each of which is almostan art ia itself, and cannot possibly be learnt without considerable attention andexperience ; but with these combined a good sailor with a good… … The Sailing-Boat. By reaching is meant sailing with a side wind. The hoat is said to be on a reachwhen the main-sheet is not quite close-hauled ; and on a bowline, Avhen the Avind is freeand the sheets are eased off so that all the sails draAV powerfully. The principal points to attend to when…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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