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 455
orfor the purpose of illustration in this work. The model, which is now in theIndian Museum, is considered perfect in every respect, as a whole; and as tothe details, the making of it is said to have been superintended by an Arab fromthe Persian Gulf. ARAB PIRATE BOATS. Another and more ancient… … ¥ Arab Pirate Boat. 430 Boats of the Persian Gulf. form of its hull; and the rig savours of the Malayan form. The boat has a squaretransom, with raised deck astern; it has no rudder, but is steered by the primitivecontrivance of two ponderous oars, one on each side of the transom stern. The rig of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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