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 74
erience inboat-sailing, and who for a long time had a boat in constant use rigged upon this plan.As the Author had many opportunities of testing the merits of the rig, and of seeingthe boat alluded to under sail, he is enabled to recommend it with confidence as a safeand handy rig for a small boat.… … Useful Design for a Lugger. the middle, and hoisted with a mast-traveller and halliards ; but the foot or flap of thesail is laced to a boom, and bowsed down quite flat and taut, by means of a small tacklein front of and at the foot of the mast; as shown in the engraving. With a bout underthis rig,…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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