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 189
ressure ofsail, her load-water-line becomes a nonentity. On the introduction of the rule it was, unfortunately, at once adopted by thesmaller classes of racing-yachts, and advantage was taken of every loophole to producea boat of the ne plus ultra type that should outsail the prize winners of the… … In the design and conformation of small racing-yachts of this class the comforts ofcabin accommodation are wanting: the one object being to turn out a boat that shalleclipse in speed the latest champion of the season; and with that object, lightness ofconstruction has been carried to extremes;…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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