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 87
, is familiar withthe latine-rigged vessels and their lofty-peaked and graceful-looking sails, and has,probably, witnessed the activity of the crews Avho man them, the nimble manner inwhich they climb the slender yard, frap the sail, and perform other feats of seamanshipinteresting and amusing to… … Latine. Sails goose-winged. stumpy-headed mast, where they sometimes remain for an hour or more at a time, butfor what purpose it would be difficult to say. The latine rig is found in various parts of the world. It is used on most of thenavigable rivers of India, also in and about the Mediterranean…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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