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 181
safest mode of conducting a boat throughthe difficulties and dangers before mentioned; and they have found, and well proved,that the safest plan when a wave threatens them astern is, to face the danger boldly anddrive the stern of the boat at the very crest of the wave, with all the impetus the… … A Drogtte is a conical-shaped collapsible bag, made of stout canvas bound with smallrope; it is about two feet in diameter at the mouth, and four feet six inches in length,gradual^ tapering to a point at the lower end. When towed by the mouth, theDrogue fills with water and draws heavily; thereby…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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