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 173
ound taking her place at the helmand maintaining it throughout a spirited and exciting sailing match ; upon the principle,perhaps, that every yachting lady should be her own sailing-mistress. Be 1 his as it may, there are undoubtedly some very skilful lady amateur yacht andboat-sailers in and about… … But again we pressed on her, the gale still increasing;Not a squall now and then, but a squall without ceasing -Tiir Author. The amateur boat-sailer who ventures to set sail in squally weather must have aneye to windward, particularly if in an open boat. Squalls of wind require watching,and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
