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 502
ntconstruction, broad, smooth, and strongly yetlightly made, the roof serving the purpose ofprotection from the scorching rays of thesun, and the platform the receptacle of fruitsand vegetables, the produce by industry ofthe natives, and fish, the result of their dex-terity and skill in spearing… … I « The Sailing-Boat. long canoes, with the bow and stern rising up into a beak, six or eight feet high,decorated with shells and waving plumes of cassowaries hair. He also gives anadmirable description of the whole process of their construction. The natives of Kei excel in the art of…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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