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 513
ng to the chiefs of the Fiji 487 The Sailing-Boat. Islands are prettily ornamented with shells, and the sails with white flags andstreamers. The sail of the Fiji canoes is of triangular shape, and so large as to appear quiteout of proportion to the vessel. It is made of tough yet pliable matting,… … Fiji Islands Sailing Canoe. from each end of the larger canoe. The yard is nearly twice as long as the mast, andthe boom somewhat less than the yard. The halliards are passed over a crescent at the top of the mast. They are benton to the yard nearly in the middle, so that, when the sail is hoisted…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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