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speed, they are, so far as the author's experience goes, generally insufficient by themselves to enable a boat to beat to windward in a satisfactory manner; and a centre-board or lee-boards will be found necessary.
THE COBLE
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Fig. 40.—Yorkshire Coble.
There is, however, one sort of boat (one hesitates to recommend it to the novice, for it is a tricky and somewhat difficult craft to handle) which, while admirably adapted for beaching, yet sails very well indeed to windward, even through a heavy sea, without the aid of centre-board or lee-board. This is the coble of Northumberland, possibly the best open boat in the world for a harbourless stormy coast. The coble is easy to row, safe to beach,
