Inside Out Library · Explore

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 564

An illustration from 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, leaf 564
the seams caulked with moss. The Kuriles have no proper wood forboat-building, except that derived from wreckage drifted ashore by the sea. In trans-porting their goods to and from these islands, they usually lash two Baidars together,and form a sort of platform across them, on which they carry the… … END OF PART VIII. 539 PART IX. NAUTICAL VOCABULARY. Aft, Abaft, or Astern.—Towards the stern of a vessel. A-lee.—The side opposite to the wind ; the situation of the helm when in an opposite direction to that from which the wind blows.Amidships.—Any part of the middle of a vessel with regard to her…

Sailing · Boats and boating

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from 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

More like this