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 422
NG-BOATS. The Portuguese pleasure-boats, or cahiques, employed at Lisbon and otherplaces on the coast of Portugal, are fine, fast-sailiug boats. They are rigged withtwo latine sails and a mizzen, the latter beiug set in a similar manner to a Bermudiansail, the yard serving the purpose of… … Portuguese Sailing Boat. bamboo yards, which, though looking large are very light and stiff; each yardbeinc generally composed of several pieces of bamboo at the ends, so as to givethem a pointed and graceful appearance. These boats are high both at bows andstern, but low amidships: and although…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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