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 42
. HALF-DECKED BOATS. Boats decked fore and aft, and with a narrow deck, or water-way on each sidewithin the gunwales, are called half-decked boats ; the object of the deck beingto render them safer under sail when listing over in a breeze. AIL open boats withlarge sails should be so constructed.… … Half-decked Boat. venturesome in strong winds and a rough sea, the half-decked boat is not infallible, andin the hands of a reckless boat-sailer may be capsized, notwithstanding the half-deck. SMALL OPEN SAILING-BOATS. Although every yacht is a boat, it is not every boat that is a yacht. It is in…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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