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 398
hes ever sailed in British waters came offunder the auspices of the Royal Yacht Squadron, in a stiff breeze, on a fine coursefrom off Cowes harbour round the Isle of Wight to the eastward, and home by theNeedles to the west, which resulted in a yacht of American design and constructioncarrying off… … 1 America, owned by Mr. J. C. Stevens, then Commodore of the New York Yacht Club,was sent across the Atlantic and arrived at Cowes on July 31st in that year, to competeat our regattas on the Solent and elsewhere with the fastest yachts of the Britishpleasure fleet; and, in fact, she brought with…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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