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 460
out to extremes ateach end, with a fine, sharp, hollow bow and tapering stern. 434 Boats of India. The common mode of rig of Indian sailing-boats is that known as the latine. Butmany of the trading and passage boats are rigged with a kind of lug-sail. The style of rigging the latines of India… … Pleasure-Boat. jib besides. The sails of the Indian latine, instead of being right-angled triangleslike true latines, have the foremost angle cut off, so that they are nearer the principle ofthe old settee sail. A great advantage, however, is, that latine sails so cut may bereefed at the foot with…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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