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 430
re gene-rally decorated in an antiquestyle. The smaller gondolas,large enough for one or twopersons only, are called gon-dolettes ; these are as lightand buoyant as the littlewherries of the UpperThames, and are movedabout very swiftly andwith little exertion, but arerowed differently to boatsof… … 405 The Sailing-Boat. about thirty feet long and five broad, of light and elegant form; and elaborateAvorkmanskip is sometimes displayed in the carving and finish of the prow. A closedcompartment is constructed in the centre for the occupants, and is fitted with windows,cushions, carpet and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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