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 209
ling-Boat. o The Kismet, which has had a highly successful career, was designed by Mr. LintonHope, who, in most of the earlier matches she sailed, was generally at the helm andsteered her to victory. She is a broad, and shallow boat with a fine sharp bow andshallow tapering stern: she has a small… … Kismet [in plate to the rudder-like shape shown in the engraving. The plate which is 150 lbs. inweight, is of Bulls metal; and is the only ballast (excepting the crew) carried by theboat. The rudder is of the same metal, and of the shape indicated by the engraving.The boat is steered by a forked or…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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