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 256
becarried as by any other mode of rig, and that the sail has no tendency whateverto heel the boat OArer. In fact, under any and every condition of wind and weather,the boat maintains a perfectly upright position, sailing always on an even keel. The Umbrella sail is of oval shape, 30 feet in… … The profile illustration is merely a suggestion by the Author; so far as he isaware, no boat of such a rig has ever been constructed. He has named it theNautilus-rig from its resemblance, when the sail is spread, to a Nautilus. 231 The Sailing-Boat. The advantages contemplated by the rig are, that…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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