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 194
plank in her structure quiver,and at the same time scattering showers of spray at every thump, and all the whilemaking unsatisfactory headway. As to the best proportion of beam to length in a sailing-boat, it is a problem noteasy to solve: a certain extent of beam may be entirely successful in one… … 169 The Sailing-Boat. THE UPPER THAMES SAILING-BOATS. The Upper Thames, so famous for its rowing matches, has also its small class ofsailing hoats; and probably in no inland river in Europe is there to be found a greatervariety of pleasure boats (chiefly of the rowing class) than on the River…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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