Sailing Boats from Around the World: The Classic 1906 TreatiseCourier Corporation, 6 de out. de 2012 - 576 páginas Comprehensive, profusely illustrated book documents early-20th-century sailing. Includes detailed, instructional manual for beginning and experienced sailors, review of small vessels then in use; racing boats, odd and experimental vessels, and more. Over 380 line drawings and photographs, including body, deck, and sail plans. Nautical vocabulary. Indexes. Bibliography. |
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... flat and concave, with a hole in the side for the rudder. The latter is merely a long oar for steering.6 In most of the vessels of the ancients it appears that the prow was made in the form of a fish, a dolphin, or the head of some ...
... flat and concave, with a hole in the side for the rudder. The latter is merely a long oar for steering.6 In most of the vessels of the ancients it appears that the prow was made in the form of a fish, a dolphin, or the head of some ...
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... flat rounded floor, but no keel. The upper part of the curragh, from the thwarts to the gunwale, on the inside, is composed of wood : but all the bilge and bottom parts are of wicker-work lined with a light trellis framework of wood ...
... flat rounded floor, but no keel. The upper part of the curragh, from the thwarts to the gunwale, on the inside, is composed of wood : but all the bilge and bottom parts are of wicker-work lined with a light trellis framework of wood ...
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... flat as ever. To a tyro boat-sailer it is recommended as superior to many others for an open boat under sixteen feet in length ; when longer some other rig is preferable, as the spreet required to set the sail will be found too long and ...
... flat as ever. To a tyro boat-sailer it is recommended as superior to many others for an open boat under sixteen feet in length ; when longer some other rig is preferable, as the spreet required to set the sail will be found too long and ...
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... flat as possible without lacing to the boom. It should be observed, however, that in setting the sail care must be taken to keep the foot of the sail taut, or the shaking when the boat is in stays, may cause the clew to slip off the ...
... flat as possible without lacing to the boom. It should be observed, however, that in setting the sail care must be taken to keep the foot of the sail taut, or the shaking when the boat is in stays, may cause the clew to slip off the ...
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... flat; and the fore-sail, instead of being reefed in the ordinary way is made with a bonnet, and so cut as to stand quite flat when laced to a small boom, whether with or without the bonnet. The sloop is generally considered one of the ...
... flat; and the fore-sail, instead of being reefed in the ordinary way is made with a bonnet, and so cut as to stand quite flat when laced to a small boom, whether with or without the bonnet. The sloop is generally considered one of the ...
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Sailing Boats from Around the World: The Classic 1906 Treatise Henry Coleman Folkard Visualização parcial - 2000 |
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