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 95
dy and safe under ordinarymanagement, and may be used with a shorter mast than that required for a gaff-sail. The Solent rig first came into general use amongst the small racing-yachts on theSolent, in the year 1889. It was introduced by Mr. Tom Eatsey, of the firm ofLapthorne and Eatsey, the… … use on the rivers of the East Coast for many years past; and the Author himself had twoboats of very similar rig more than forty years ago, one of which is shown by theillustration from the pencil of the late Mr. J. E. Kirby, when he lived at Stour Lodge,Essex, on the banks of the Eiver Stour. But…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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