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 528
g E.S.E. from the Society Islands. The double canoes of the Paumotu Islands are remarkably curious. They arecomposed of two canoes, each 35 ft. in length by 4 ft. 6 in. in width, which are joinedside by side by means of a strong framework of wood, and a platform which extendsnearly over the whole… … Double Canoe of the Paumotu Group. sennit, made of cocoa-nut fibres. No iron or metal of any kind is used in theirconstruction, nor hempen nor manilla rope for the sails and rigging. They are fittedwith two masts, the shrouds and rigging of which are merely tough branches of the vineplant, and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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