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 537
nd have everyconfidence in their safety and capabilities as sea-going craft. When close-hauled in afresh breeze, they sail at the rate of five or six knots an hour, and much faster whengoing free. The zangada anchor is a most primitive contrivance, composed of pieces of woodforming a sort of… … 512 Fuegian Canoes. PATAGONIA. FUEGIAN CANOES. The native canoes of Terra del Fuego are curious. They are constructed of bark,sewn together with shreds of whalebone, seal-skin, and twigs. The top rim, or gunwale, is formed by binding canes or small poles to the sides.The canoe is kept in shape by…
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