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 539
INESE BOATS. I saw their boats, with many a light,Floating the live-long yesternight. There is no other nation in the world where so great a variety and so many thousandsof hoats are met with, as on the rivers and at the sea-port towns of China. But it isvery remarkable that although there has been… … other nation—yet the advancement of the Chinese in naval architecture in no waykeeps pace with the sister art of boat-building. The same type of Chinese junk andlorcha which furrowed the deep centuries ago, with their high towering sterns and loftymat sails, still navigate the seas in that same…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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