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 32
to windward, with its accompanying tactics. There is, however, evidencethat the Bomans were acquainted with the art. But whatever knowledge the ancients possessed of the use of sails as a movingpower to the vessel, there is no doubt that they relied mainly on the oars as a meansof propulsion,… … oar or paddle; it is taken from a model presented many-years ago to Greenwich Hospital by Admiral LordAnson. This model is one of the most reliable authoritiesthat can be referred to ; it is made from one in marble,which was found in the Villa Mathei during the six-teenth century, and now stands…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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