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 481
e clew, to which the main-sheet is attached. The mast is sup-ported by a back-stay extending from the top of the mast to the aft part of thecanoe, and the yard is supported by a similar back-stay, also extending from itstop part to the aft part of the canoe. In a strong breeze, one or more of the… … Flanging thwarts, resting upon cross-pieces, are fastened to the top-sides aftof the canoe, so that the crew sit out beyond the gunwale, and facing each other,their legs hanging down in the trough, or interior, of the canoe. These narrow and fragile-looking craft are managed with much skill and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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