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 454
tyle,within gun-shot of the ship, and were chased and pursued in vain. Batelles have considerable overhang fore and aft in the form of raking bowsand stern, the latter inclining upwards in a most peculiar manner from the keel;and the rudder consequently, when the vessel is under way, is let down to… … curve pointing upwards. The yoke-lines attached to it are led inboard by meansof an outrigger at the side ; and with these the helmsman steers the Batelle. Therudder so formed requires very little head, as it is confined to a certain point byspreaders fastened to the stern-posts. . These vessels…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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