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 384
ness a numerous fleet of those snow-winged craft skidding along the ice at flying speed in akeenly contested race. XThe sloop rig is that generally used, but occasionallythe cat rig. The latine rig has also been introduced onthe Hudson in some of the most recent of the ice-yachts. 1 For details as… … 359 The Sailing-Boat. At a point thirty miles above New York, the Hudson Eiver is by the 1st ofJanuary, in every year, almost invariably frozen, presenting a long stretch of solid iceextending northward to a distance of 100 miles or more, and of a breadth varying fromone to two miles. The New York…
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