10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEATHERLINESS»
Discover the use of
weatherliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
weatherliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A TREATISE ON NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND SHIP- BUILDING
ON THE QUALITY OF WEATHERLINESS, AND HOW TO GIVE IT. The nature,
cause and cure of crankness or instability having been considered, it is now
known how to make a ship stable under every ordinary condition of load, by
giving her ...
COMMANDER RICHARD W. MEADE, 1869
2
The United Service Magazine
... prove a circumstance highly advantageous* in her favour; -being especially
calculated, where it is put; to insure her becoming plait iowlarly distinguished for
the possession of the quality of gjreat weatherliness: taking it for granted,
however, ...
Arthur William Alsager Pollock, 1836
3
Lectures on naval architecture: being the substance of those ...
The form of the bow injuriously affects the weatherliness, as it accumulates the
water close to the stem, for, in doing so, it causes a deficiency along the lee side
which permits of a vessel falling to leeward, | and further tends to turn the head ...
Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne, 1846
4
The United Service Magazine
This importantly-serviceable action, creating additional, and altogether distinct,
kind of weatherliness to that resulting from mere lateial resistance, and causing
increase of speed, is produced in vessels, properly constructed and masted, ...
5
A Treatise on Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding; or, an ...
Thus it is that a considerable excess of length beyond breadth is necessary to
give weatherliness, and therefore it will be plain that unless adequate length be
given, all the stiffness to carry sail,' for which so much breadth of “ shoulder” has ...
Richard W. MEADE (Commander, U.S. Navy.), 1869
6
Yacht Architecture: a Treatise on the Laws which Govern the ...
Of course, relative weatherliness in different yachts does not depend entirely
upon resistance to leeway. The stability and wave-making features of the hull (
see pages 72 and 76), and frictional qualities of the skin, the sit and trim of the
sails, ...
7
The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette
Weatherliness being usually obtained by depth of hull, and great depth being a
quality which diminishes materially the ... so as to afford weatherliness otherwise
than by depth, and by an apparatus that may be drawn in on occasions when its ...
8
Blue Water Patriots: The American Revolution Afloat
The hull's resistance to being pushed sideways through the water by the wind
was known as weatherliness. A hull that was weatherly exhibited very little
leeway, or sideways movement, when pressed from abeam. American ship
designers ...
9
Kids in the Cockpit: A pilot book to safe and happy sailing ...
TRADITIONAL LONG KEEL Ultimate ocean-worthiness but at a cost of speed and
weatherliness. point of sailing. Iron and lead are the materials more commonly
used. Loose ballast is generally considered to be a safety risk — if it gets loose, ...
10
The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America
This type, which the Portuguese had evolved for their voyages to the Western
Islands and West Africa during the fifteenth century, was characterized by
weatherliness. Owing partly to her lines, partly to her lateen rig on at least two of
her three ...
Samuel Eliot Morison, 1986
