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 29
ical ancients, wasmade in conformation of the body of a duck, which was said to furnish the bestmodel.2 The materials of which sails were anciently made were rushes, broom stuff, skins ofanimals, and the dried skins of the intestines of animals and fish; linen and hemp wereafterwards used; indeed,… … oblectandum. According to Pliny, they were at first set one above another on the same mast; andafterwards on two masts, at the stern and prow. The sails set on the stern or mizzen-mast were called epidromus ; those on the fore-mast at the prow dolones; at the top of the mast thoracium ; stun sails,…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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