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 500
m standing when overtaken by a squall.1 The large sails cannot be shifted round so as to go on the other tack withoutfirst hauling down the jibs; and the booms of the fore and aft sails have to belowered and completely detached to perform the same operation.2 THE OOROCOEA (OE KOEA-KOEA.). A… … The Corocora. 1 The Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. p. 168. 2 Ibid., p. 173. 475 The Sailing-Bo at. The Corocora has high-peering stem and stern, and is generally fitted withoutriggers, in the manner explained by the engraving. They vary in size fromsmall boats to vessels above 10 tons burthen. On the…
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