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 535
ond, bnt smaller. The rig is local and peculiar, but not by any meansmodern, having been in use at Bahia, it is believed, for centuries past. BAHIA FRUIT-BOAT. The Bahia fruit and sugar boat is also of peculiar rig, but very different to that ofthe market-boat. The Bahia fruit-boat is rigged with… … Bahia Fruit-Boat. in shape like a jib-sail with the fore-leech laced to a long slender yard, by which it isslung and hoisted on the low-standing mizzen-mast, with the apex of the sail pointingdownwards in the boat several feet in front of the mizzen-mast; and the clew of thesail is sheeted to a…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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