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 45
considerably : in some it is fitted to the fore part of the boat, inothers a little less forward, and in some farther astern. In the larger boats it is usuallyplaced in or near about midships; but in some of the smaller craft which are sailedwith one sail only, when the mast is stejiped in the fore… … With regard to the best form of sailing-boat for cruising in a sea-way, tbere arevarious models, adapted more or less to the purposes for which they are required, andthe nature of the sea, or rather the locality of the waters, in which they are intended tobe sailed; but speaking generally of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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