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 543
d girls, whoscull and pole them about, threading their way through the maze among the never-ceasing noise and jabber of thousands of voices. Screaming and helpless little childrenare also crawling about the decks, with hollow gourds or bladders tied at the back oftheir necks as life-buoys,1 to keep… … CHINESE SAILING BOATS. Some of the sailing pleasure-boats of the Chinese are admirable models, thoughoriginal and peculiar in appearance, with their broad and high sterns and low-pointedprows, and they sail splendidly, when rigged in the most approved style, and fitted with 1 Powers China; Downings…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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