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 443
anding which they are very tight and secure, as well as strong anddurable. The shape of the Praam is similar to a wooden boat-scoop without a handle,having a broad, round shaped bottom; the greatest breadth of beam is at thestern, the head and bows gradually rising forward, and sometimes finishing… … Norway Praam. flat floor, and the buoyancy with which it sits upon the water. Some of thelargest of these boats sail remarkably well, when judiciously rigged and ballasted. The engraving represents a large Sailing-Praam, adapted and rigged in Britishwaters with two masts and lug-sails, running…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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