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 476
MADRAS SAILING-CATAMARANS. The Madias Sailing-Catamarans are of a superior kind, composed of threecarefully-shaped solid logs of wood turning up at each end with considerable sheer.Each log is cut flat on the upper side, and rounded at the bottom; the fore endsforming the bows are also rounded, but… … Sailing-Catamaran and^sectic logs, therefore, form sides and seats for the crew of the raft, and the lower onea sort of well or interior, and place for the feet of the crew. The three logs areheld together by three cross-pieces, firmly secured upon the upper surface of thelogs, besides which they…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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