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 247
e form best adapted for fast sailing.And, in the Authors view, the scope of inquiry and investigation should not be limitedto models from the hands of British designers, since much is to be learned from astudy of the models of other nations. The Heathen Chinee has several peculiarities, not only in… … small immersed surface, and a sufficient sail-area, so contrived as to be easily handled,and with little weight or bulk of gear aloft. The Heathen Chinee was designed by Mr.Landseer MacKenzie, and built at Erith by J. McWharter in 1877, and has been thewinner of many cups in the course of her…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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