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 488
islands,and in passing from one to the other, require to be specially and peculiarly well fittedfor sailing with a side wind; and when we examine the uncommon simplicity (yetingenuity) of the construction and contrivance of the Flying Proa, and consider theextraordinary speed at which it sails, we… … Flying Proa of Ihe Lad Explanation of the Plate. Fig. 1 represents the Flying Proa with her sail set, as she appears when viewedfrom the leeward. Fig. 2. is a view of the Flying Proa from the head (or stem on), with the outriggerto windward. Fig. 3 is a plan of the whole, where A B is the lee side…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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