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 530
504 South American Sailing Rafts. SOUTH AMERICA. SOUTH AMERICAN SAILING BALZA. The South American sailing Balza is in reality a sailing raft, composed of five,seven, or nine logs of wood, or trunks of trees, called Balza. The natives of Dariencall the tree Puero. The balza is a soft, whitish wood,… … South American Sailing Balza. carrying goods from the custom-house to Guayaquil, and from thence to Puna, theSaltode, Tumbez, and Paita; and others, of a more curious and elegant construction,are employed in removing native families to their estates and country houses. Some of these sailing-rafts…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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