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 82
hen pitching in a heavy sea, would plunge it under water and soon carry it away, andthe pressure of the sail, acting on the bows, would assist in burying the head of theboat under the waves; but by inclining the bowsprit upwards, such an evil is avoided,and the sail acts as a lifting, as well as a… … Yorkshire Coble (under sail). frequently to be eased and humoured to the wind and waves, particularly when the sea is running high. When ballasted, the coble has a great hold of the water forward, but very little aft;the deep-diving rudder has therefore to be shipped before anything can be done…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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