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 170
rrow for some object ahead or on shore. Row, this is undoubtedly an excellentplan when running free ; but the man who so steers a racing vessel when on a wind,will very seldom succeed in bringing her in first at the winning goal. The man at thehelm should Avatch constantly for variations in the… … ing. Blanketing her opponent. tion to such opportunities, and instantly embracing them, that they can be turned to sogood advantage ; but, be it remembered, that in a sailing match they are assuredlygolden chances when attentively and opportunely seized. In trimming the sheets in a sailing match, a…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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