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 373
dvantageous position for shooting. Probably no better form of boat could be invented for traversing the shallowwaters of inland bays and rivers, the resort of wild-fowl, than a sloop-rigged revolvingcentre-plate boat, the keel of which can be raised or lowered at pleasure; whilstthe shallow form of… … The Beacon-light. Theres a signal well known to the mariner brave,His guide oer the waters from perils to save;Tis hailed with a welcome wherever in sight,And the mariner calls it the Beacon-light. A true friend in distress, ever brilliant and gay,Whether fixed or revolving will neer lead astray…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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