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 250
lso of sails and gear. 224 Curiosities of Type and Rig. DEMPSTERS TRIANGULAR YACHT PROBLEM. Some thirty or forty years ago a remarkably curious boat, called the Problem, wasexhibited by the inventor, Mr. Henry Dempster, who called upon the Author severaltimes respecting it. The hull was of… … Dempsters Triangular-Keel Yacht Problem. feet in length, and six feet beam ; was iron built, and ballasted with lead. It wasrigged with three masts, the main-mast being placed exactly in the centre, and in anupright position; the fore-mast had considerable rake forward, and the mizzen-mast thesame…
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