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 199
l they spread. Sometimes the reason lies in the crankform of hull, which shows the boat to be unfit to carry sail at all in a good breeze. It is to be feared, however, that there are some very successful prize-winnerswhich would prove mere death-traps in inexperienced hands. Of this class aresome… … The illustration is that of a sailing-boat of British design (1896), of extreme type,with a dagger-blade form of centre-plate. The Daireen, a boat with a similar dagger-blade centre-plate, which was her only ballast, was also of this type. Probably in theexperienced hands of her designer the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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