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 562
ctic Regions. TCHUKTCHI SKIN CANOES. These primitive canoes are, in fact, the counterpart of the Greenland Oomiak.The natives of Tchuktchi have no wood wherewith to build either huts or boats. Theirtents, as well as their boats, are composed chiefly of a framework of the large bones ofwhales and… … Tchuktchi Skin Canoe, air, with the ends firmly secured. These serve as floats, or safety-buoys, when thecanoe heels over.1 Some of these skin boats are of large size, fitted with rudder, mast, and largesquare-sail, and capable of carrying two tons or more of merchandise. Even anordinary-sized skin…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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