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 163
e bridle. To steer the boat when going through the water stern first, the helm must be putin the same direction as that in which the head of the boat is required to be turned.When drifting with the current in a tide-way, the aft part of the boat being deeperthan the fore part, the stern will have a… … Fueling the sails—also termed stowing the sails—merely implies rolling themup neatly and in a sailor-like manner, after the boat is moored, or at anchor. The main-sail is furled as follows:—-The sail being lowered down into the boat,place the gaff and boom close together, one on top of the other;…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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