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 423
nded for sailing in fine weather, underskilful management, they may be safely handled even in strong winds; but onsuch occasions one or more of the sails is dispensed with. Each sail is fitted withbrails and brail-ropes, so as to be capable of being trapped close to the yard withfacility. 397 Th IC… … Madeira Boat. stern-posts of great strength, and are, upon the whole, somewhat crudely constructed;but they are wide and roomy inside, and capable of carrying a good-sized sailand a heavy cargo. THE CATEIA. The Catria is a fine open sea-boat, employed by the fishermen and pilots ofthe Douro. These…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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