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 440
the upper part and wedge-like at the 414 Norwegian Boats. under part; with high-pointed stem and stern, both alike; whilst the form of thePraams is entirely the reverse, being so rounded at the bottom as to be nearly flat;and the stern end is wide and square, but the bow is spoon-shaped, and… … different cut to an English lug. The Norwegian lug-sail is narrow at the top, thelower part being more than twice the width of the upper; the tack is made fastat the inner part of the weather bow, the clew being sheeted in the boats aftquarter. Although the mast is stepped amidships, and the short…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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