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 477
tern ends are fitted with circular pieces, like the head of a cask. Two orthree poles are lashed across the head part, to hold them at a proper distanceapart; but at the stern they are merely held together by a rope. The ferrymanstands on the aft part of one of the pontoons, and conducts and… … The Dhoney and section. the Indian Archipelago. ~No nails or pegs are used in the construction of thesevessels; but the planking is neatly and mechanically joined and secured withlacings, made of a strong fibrous material called coir yarn. A caulking of softmatting stuff is also ingeniously laid…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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