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 191
lf on each side. Boats of such a type are undoubtedly the fastest of the day in moderate weather;they are also quick in stays, and remarkably stiff under canvas. The long-reaching bow and overhang at the stem, enable them to carry all, ornearly all, their sail inboard, and dispenses with a long… … PIovers Solent one-Design Yacht The further effect of the rule has been that it has given remarkable impetus to thebuilding of racing-craft of a smaller class than previously, at every place where yacht-sailing is indulged in as a pastime. And it has also led to the introduction of everyconceivable…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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