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 483
tiveboats are built is the Thing/an,which is tough and durable,steams well, and grows near thewater. A boat built of thinganwood lasts from 20 to 30 years. The ancient type is still pre-served in the modern boats ofBurma, particularly the high poopand prow, which in those of thesuperior class of… … Boats of Burma and Bangkok. They only sail with a free wind, and then cany a great expanse of sail, which,it appears, is necessary to stem the current of the Irawadi.1 In the superior class of modern pleasure-boats of Burma the fish fan-tail at the stern(already referred to) is one of its most…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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