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 299
ntive helmsman and his crew, should one of thosepowerful gusts overtake him in an unguarded moment ! 273 x x The Sailing-Boat. The danger is increased considerably by the wonted suddenness with whichsuch squalls almost invariably come, often when the surface of the lake is scarcelyruffled by the… … i a photo by In no part of the British Islands where boat-sailing is practised is theregreater necessity for precaution by those having charge of a sailing-boat than onthe Lake Windermere. The helmsman and crew must always be on their guardagainst the sudden gusts of wind which come sweeping along…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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