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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... sail: speed was to be kept in view, but at the same time the extent of sail-area was to be very moderate. In fact the instructions were that the boat should, as far as consistent with other special requirements, be “a good all-round ...
... sail: speed was to be kept in view, but at the same time the extent of sail-area was to be very moderate. In fact the instructions were that the boat should, as far as consistent with other special requirements, be “a good all-round ...
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... area of canvas that is spread, the boat rides easily under her spars, and sails with less labouring in a sea-way than one with a single heavy mast, boom and gaff sail. Pilots, on approaching ships at sea, arc enabled to lower a lugsail ...
... area of canvas that is spread, the boat rides easily under her spars, and sails with less labouring in a sea-way than one with a single heavy mast, boom and gaff sail. Pilots, on approaching ships at sea, arc enabled to lower a lugsail ...
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... Yacht Club, or in the matches of some other canoe sailing clubs, must be constructed according to the requirements of the club as to length, breadth, depth, sail area, and other details: they are also required to be fitted with ...
... Yacht Club, or in the matches of some other canoe sailing clubs, must be constructed according to the requirements of the club as to length, breadth, depth, sail area, and other details: they are also required to be fitted with ...
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... sail area, 300 square feet; the steel centre-plate weighing about two hundredweight; and a steel rudder, sharpened on the lower edge. The Lapwing is rigged with one mast only, and has three battens extending across the main-sail from ...
... sail area, 300 square feet; the steel centre-plate weighing about two hundredweight; and a steel rudder, sharpened on the lower edge. The Lapwing is rigged with one mast only, and has three battens extending across the main-sail from ...
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... sail, the boom should be three-fifths of the whole, and the bowsprit two-fifths; but for a lug-sail the bowsprit should be a trifle more than one-third of the whole length. If there be less area of canvas forward, then the strain on the ...
... sail, the boom should be three-fifths of the whole, and the bowsprit two-fifths; but for a lug-sail the bowsprit should be a trifle more than one-third of the whole length. If there be less area of canvas forward, then the strain on 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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