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 542
tens of thousands of boats be assembled together on the Chinese rivers,yet good order and decorum is kept to a certain extent. All boats with the same kindof goods are moored together in tiers at a certain place on the river allotted to them bythe local magistrates ; and watchers and other… … carried on in the boats by the people who form the aquatic population of the Chineserivers. All the Chinese sea-going craft have a great goggle-eye painted on each side of thebows; the river craft alone are without that ornament. They also have very largerudders ; and instead of iron they use…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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