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 551
s China. 525 The Sailing-Boat. DUCK BOATS. The duck boats must be ranked among the curiosities of Chinese craft. They arelarge flat-bottomed boats, with low sides, and a house erected upon them. They have abroad deck, or duck-walk, covered with lattice-work, extending the whole length of thevessel… … modious apartment at the fore part. In the morning, at sunrise, the doors of thesefloating duckeries are thrown oj)en, and the feathered occupants are then permitted towaddle around the premises at their pleasure. Stepping-boards are also let down at the sides, and at the fore part of the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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