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 391
gyptians appears to have been a sortof square-sail, with a yard both at the top and bottom. The prow of the ancient Egyptian boats was generally decorated with a paintedeye on each side of the stem; a peculiarity that has been kept up by the Chinesethrough centuries past, to the present day. The… … Boat of the Ancient Egypti; with a pole in his hand, wherewith to sound the depth of the water and signal to thehelmsman when near a shoal, or sand-bank. The precaution of the sounding-pole isstill adopted in all the Nile boats, wherever the pilot is doubtful about the depth ofwater. The…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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