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 183
ent mismanagement. The man at the helm should be courageous, but wary ; 157 The Sailing-Boat. if his courage forsakes him the danger increases; the moment he gets unnerved hebecomes more or less bewildered, and on the approach of danger, before he can do whatis really necessary, perhaps the boat is… … Sea boat with balance-reef. worst; the sails should therefore be reefed as closely and promptly as possible, and allhead-sails that can be dispensed with should be lowered and taken in; all the canvasmust be inboard ; and if the boat will obey her helm without a jib, it will be advisableto reef the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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