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 176
of a weather-helm ; 150 Causes of Boats Capsizing. missing-stays; sluggishness on coming about; insufficient ballast; the ballast shiftingand rolling over to leeward ; the jamming of a rope, whereby it is checked in runningthrough the blocks or sheaves ; the sail not coming down freely; ill-fitting… … The illustration is from a photograph of the Eos, half-rater, capsized off CowesHarbour, and the steam launch of the Liquid Fuel Company rendering promptassistance. The Eos was the winner in the year 1897 of the £100 West ChallengeCup at Eyde. Probabl}- one of the most glaring indiscretions of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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