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 511
the main range of islands in the Western Pacific. The Canoes of the native islanders, though of primitive construction, are wellmade, considering that they are formed entirely by hollowing out the trunk of atree. They are however, very ticklish on the water, and easily upset. Thosewhich are used… … Sandwich Islands Canoes. The double canoes of these islands consist merely of two ordinary canoes heldtogether, at the space apart of from four to six feet, by strong beams, which arearched and stand up above the canoes. They are sometimes assisted with a smallsail of very primitive form, the mast…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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