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 236
the fin; whilst the lead bulb, instead of being of torpedo-shape projectingbeyond the fin, extends the whole length of the lower end of the fin without anyprojection, and is rounded at the bottom. An illustration, from a photo of the Hermes, has already been given at page 34,shewing the yacht under… … season of 1898 she was one of the most successful of the class. Her owner usuallysteered her, and she wound up the season with twenty-seven first prizes out of forty-nine starts, and a long string of forty-one flags. The Koorangah was also the winnerof the Eoyal Southampton Yacht Club Medal for…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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