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 196
ippedwith a suitable boat; but it should always be borne in mind that in lively breezes andstrong winds, a boat with too great a spread of sail is just as liable to be upset on theupper reaches of the river as on the lower, or even on the broader waters of the( coast. One of the most successful of… … In her first season, out of thirty-three starts, she won twenty-five prizes: eighteenof which were firsts, six second and one third; and every year since, she has figuredconspicuously among the prize winners on the upper river ; and so recently as the year1899 was at the head of her class at the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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