The sailing boat: a description of English and foreign boats |
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... helm to port or starboard , the hollow part clears the bank , and enables the boat to get off immediately . There is , among the naval models in the Kensington Museum , a beautiful model of a Dahabéëh , upon a large scale , with sails ...
... helm to port or starboard , the hollow part clears the bank , and enables the boat to get off immediately . There is , among the naval models in the Kensington Museum , a beautiful model of a Dahabéëh , upon a large scale , with sails ...
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... helm at my hand . What sport is more pure , what pleasure more sweet , Than the sail and the breeze when kindly they meet . ' THE AUTHOR . THERE is considerable variety in English sailing - boats , both as regards form and rig ; and ...
... helm at my hand . What sport is more pure , what pleasure more sweet , Than the sail and the breeze when kindly they meet . ' THE AUTHOR . THERE is considerable variety in English sailing - boats , both as regards form and rig ; and ...
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... a boat under this rig , there is no necessity for dipping the lug , or lowering it in any way , on coming about ; the man at the helm can alone do all that is necessary . It is , in fact , almost equal , as 46 ENGLISH SAILING - BOATS .
... a boat under this rig , there is no necessity for dipping the lug , or lowering it in any way , on coming about ; the man at the helm can alone do all that is necessary . It is , in fact , almost equal , as 46 ENGLISH SAILING - BOATS .
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... helm . Mr. Shuldham discontinued the rig on account only of his having found it very troublesome in a heavy squall ; this may not , however , be so in Mr. Steven's well - manned yacht , but the other was short - handed . One gentleman ...
... helm . Mr. Shuldham discontinued the rig on account only of his having found it very troublesome in a heavy squall ; this may not , however , be so in Mr. Steven's well - manned yacht , but the other was short - handed . One gentleman ...
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... helm ; with two reefs , an increased one ; and with three , she could hardly be kept from luffing into the wind's eye ; but by making the yard about four - fifths the length of the boom , the centre of the wind's pressure upon the sail ...
... helm ; with two reefs , an increased one ; and with three , she could hardly be kept from luffing into the wind's eye ; but by making the yard about four - fifths the length of the boom , the centre of the wind's pressure upon the sail ...
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