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 210
ed inthe sail at about equal distances one from the other, and extending from outer to innerleech of the sail; the three lower battens and the boom are each attached to the mastby light metal crescent-shaped gaff-jaws; the sail itself being laced to the boom andgaff; the main-sail, so fitted and… … The Kismet is a boat of elegant and graceful design, and her rig is perhaps verysuitable for a small, shallow racing-boat of her type ; but bearing in mind that her drop-keel constitutes her only dead-weight ballast, it is obvious that with her large spread ofsail she requires very careful and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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