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 83
rther to guard against such an evil, in some instances revolving keels, orcentre-boards, have been introduced among the north-country boatmen, and found toanswer fairly well; for when the centre-board is down, the coble has all the propertiesof a keel-boat, both in working to windward and reaching… … coble with its sail struck, and about to approach a ship for the purpose of putting apilot on board), and there used to be salvage cobles, but the latter are now supersededby steam-tugs. The largest sized cobles are those employed in the herring fishery ;some of these are from ten to fifteen tons…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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