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 505
nty. The rig of the Malay pirate Prahus consists of two masts, with sails of matting.A platform is erected over the bows of the Prahu, and extending some distancebeyond; this platform is as wide or wider than any other part of the boat, andwas the rendezvous of the pirates when attacking a vessel.… … 480 Boats of the Malay Archipelago. the sides. They are usually rigged with two masts and lyre tanjong sails, thoughsometimes with lug-sails. The Ballellang is rather broader than the Jellore, but stillcomparatively narrow; yet they are capable of mounting two small swivel guns, with anative crew…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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