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 369
se. Practical punters have expressed their surprise thatthe late Colonel Hawker should have recommended such a material. During the latterpart of the Colonels sporting career, however, he appears to have given preference toelm and pine. THE SAILING-PUNT. The sailing-punt enables the wild-fowl… … It should be observed, however, that it is not every gunning-punt that can be sailed:a boat of special construction (such as that above described) is required for the purpose:for, so surely as an inexperienced hand attempts sailing an ordinary sculling-punt,such as is used for wild-fowling, so…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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