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 182
y and keep her end on to the waves; they are,therefore, of great assistance to the crew in preventing the boat from broaching-to. Every boat, whether sailing or rowing, which goes to sea in stormy weather, shouldbe provided with a Drogue: the precaution has saved many a small fishing-boat… … It blew great guns, when gallant Tom Was taking in a sail,And squalls came on in sight of home, That strengthened to a gale.—Dibdin. In order to manage an open sailing-boat or a small yacht with safety in a gale, thesailing-master mnst have had considerable experience in boat-sailing. There is…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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