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 469
ves of the Deccan and at Bombay for the conveyance of rice and otherarticles of merchandise. The Pattamar, like most of the native sailing vessels ofthat country, is remarkable for its peculiar-shaped keel, which forms part of a circle,the hollow being directly under the midship section, where… … Pattamar, sailing with a free wind. sharp-bottomed boats the curve is less. The chief advantages of a keel so formedare that it gives additional weatherly qualities under sail; and also that whenthey get aground (as they are very liable to do in the Deccan), they may be got 444 Boats of India. off…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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