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 168
he vesselwas sailing—to hold her up, or to keep her stiff, as they termed it. In the absenceof bags of shot, were long bars of lead or iron which they lugged from side to sidein the same manner, and then secured them from slipping by putting up slides orshifting-boards. The four men then cringed… … Racing cutter of 1850. 143 The Sailing-Boat. shot-bags as before. When there was much turning to windward ballast-trimmingwas hard work; in fact the hardest work aboard the vessel. As much as a ton wasbut an ordinary quantum of shifting-ballast for a ten-ton racing cutter of that period,and so in…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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