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 255
1876, but little was ever heard of it afterwards. The most recent production of the kind was in the year 1898, when a Canadiandouble boat of shallow type, named the Dominion, was built to sail a match against anAmerican boat for the Seawanaka Challenge Cup. The Dominion proved the faster ofthe two,… … Umbrella Boat. t &* Son, Sonthsca. In the season of 1896 a sailing-boat appeared on the Solent with a singular kindof rig, the sail resembling a large Umbrella. It was the invention of Mr. W. Gr.Wilson and the late Mr. Percy S. Pilcher, who were then experimenting with theboat with a view to…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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