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 90
this graceful and interesting form of rig is not nearlyso much in favour as it used to be on the Norfolk rivers ; the objection being, theenormous length of the yard required for spreading the sail, and the inconvenience ofstowing a spar on board which is three times the length of the boat.… … The Strangford Latine Rig. This is a modern form of latine rig, upon a plan adopted by the late Lord de Eos,who kindly sent the Author a description of it with a drawing, from which the aboveengraving has been made. His lordships well-known skill and experience in yachtingand boat-sailing are alone…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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