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 472
shelter, andthe heavy broken seas which constantly prevail there, render it difficult, and some-times impossible, to effect a safe landing of either passengers or goods in any boatof ordinary construction. Under these circumstances, the ingenuity of the nativebeachmen has been turned to the… … Massoolah Surf Beat. goods may now be safely put off or landed through the heavy surf and brokenwater on that perilous coast. Neither nails, pegs, nor bolts are used in any part of the structure of aMassoolah boat, but the planks and other parts are sewn and laced together withthe strong fibres of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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