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 548
yed about them in lattice-work,carving and painting; the roof is ornamented with pots of choice flowers, and a colouredflag is hoisted at the stern. These boats are moved about with a pair of large oars, andsometimes a small sail is set above the roof of the building.2 1 Downings Fan-qui. Powers… … The engraving above will more clearly illustrate the superior kind of house-boatused by the middle class of Chinese people. The Hoppos boats are, in fact, a kind of wooden house raised upon the floor of theboat, having the entrance at the bows. This entrance is, in some of the boats, carvedin a…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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