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 91
be lowered,either partially for reefing, or wholly for striking sail, without disengaging the tackfrom the fore end of the boom, which would have to be done if the yard were hoistedand held to the mast by a traveller. The boom and gaff thus close like a pair of compasses; and the reef-points being… … Norfolk Wherry, These vessels may properly be described as the inland cargo boats of the rivers andbroads of Norfolk: they are used chiefly for the conveyance of heavy merchandise, suchas corn, flour, meal, &c, and bricks, lime, and other building materials, to and from thevarious towns and…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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