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 34
many yearsago, there were found sunk at the bottom eight canoes, each made of a single tree,which there is every reason to believe had been used by the ancient Britons infishing upon that lake, and which in size and shape were much like the American(Virginian) canoes.3 So also in the early part of… … THE CORACLE. We dared to think, we dared to say, that he could frame a boat,And many others said the same, hut questioned— would it float ? —Eliza Cook. Apart from the canoes of the ancient Britons, the Coracle is one of the earliestforms of boat ever constructed in Great Britain. Some of the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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