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 200
ese bulkheads sometimes burst whenput to the test, unless very strongly made; and such strength would seem to beinconsistent with the thin scantling and light material of which they are constructed. Another and great source of clanger in these unballasted and over-canvased boatsis in carrying a… … From a pilots /•] ¥ Sou, South The Solent sea which, separates the Isle of Wight from the main land is therendezvous of the elite of fashionable Yachting, and the headquarters of the Eo}alYacht Squadron, whose Club House is Cowes Castle, delightfully situated on the banksof the Solent at the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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