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 403
oom; the inner end of the boom is set in an eyelet made to receive it at about 377 3 c The Sailing-Boat. 3 ft. or 4 ft. above the tack; and on the clew of the sail being hauled out taut at theouter end of the boom, the sail is made to stand very flat. This mode of fitting theboom to the sail is… … Sharpey—two masted. navigated in shallow water. The rudder is of iron, and of the form indicated by theillustration; the post of the rudder is worked through an iron pipe, which serves as acase for it, the rudder itself hanging in a drooping position at the aft end so as toobtain a better grip of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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