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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 385

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rd to a distance of 100 miles or more, and of a breadth varying fromone to two miles. The New York Central and Hudson Eiver Railroad skirt the easterly bank of theriver, and the ice-boats sometimes go racing along for many miles side by side with therailway trains, to the delight and amusement of… … American Ice-yacht Rudder Skate. exceeds 35 miles an hour, but the ice-yachts, in a good breeze, with a free wind, travelat the rate of from 40 to 60 miles an hour, and they have been known to go (underexceptionally favourable conditions) at a much faster rate of speed, averaging above 100miles an…

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