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 195
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… … Upper Thames Sailing-boat. purpose and intention of this work: suffice it to say that there are many of exquisitedesign and beautiful proportions, particularly among those of the rowing class; but asto the sailing fleet, they are not so numerous nor so various in form and design as therowing boats.…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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