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 396
dnp high in the air, and swaying to and fro in the wind, the crew run up the mast andclimb along the lofty yard with the agility of ancient funambuli;1 distributingthemselves at equal distances apart from each other; and in such positions, clingingto or sitting astride of the yard, they furl the… … Egyptian Funambuli, furling the sail. slender part of the yard; the next lightest follow behind him, and so on, leaving theheaviest below, at the thick end of the yard and broadest part of the sail. Catamarans, or Log-Boats of the Nile.—-The primitive notion of crossing rivers onlogs of buoyant…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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