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 226
the season of 1899 was a newAmerican boat, a Herreshoff production, named Swanhild II (Mr. C. E. Bicliel), agraceful and attractive-looking boat, sloop-rigged in the usual American style, withgaff main-sail, short bowsprit, and single head-sail; the seams of both sails beingcrosswise, similar to… … match for her more sturdy opponents. At the close of the season (1899) she was,however, credited with nineteen winning flags, comprising ten firsts in her races inthe Solent, and five firsts in German waters. It will be seen by the illustration of contour and body-plan of the Swanhild,that she is…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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