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 393
ngement of the masts and sailsis different. The Dahabeeh is, how-ever, the larger and more commodiousof the two, and is furnished with agangway on each side of the cabin,extending to the steerage. Themodern Dahabeeh has also a roundedstern, which the Cangia has not.Both kinds are rigged with… … Nile Boats. very long tapering yard ; in some of the boats upwards of 100 ft. in length, thick at thelower end, but gradually diminishing to a slender substance at the peak; at theextreme point of which the flag or jiennant is hoisted. The main-mast which is shortand thick, is stepped in the fore…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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