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  • I had at last to stop him by taking the spare paddle off the out-rigger and sticking it in the ground — depth, perhaps two feet — width of the bay, say three miles.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Hinchinbrook Island and the islands of Rockingham Bay have been popularly credited with the art of making out-rigger canoes, such as were common a few miles to the north.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • A different and very buoyant timber, according to him, was used for the out-rigger.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • As a matter of fact, out-rigger canoes were not known in this locality, though but 20 miles to the north hollowed logs with out-riggers of the stems of banana plants were common.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Fishing operations include both small-scale fishermen in out-rigger craft and industrial style purse seiners.

    Chapter 2 1983

  • He comforted himself with the knowledge that no agent was able to absorb every primitive skill, and Karara's people had explored the Pacific in out-rigger canoes hardly more stable than their present vessel, navigating by currents and stars.

    Key Out of Time Andre Norton 1958

  • Then he sits over on the side opposite the out-rigger, so as to balance it.

    Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines John Stuart Thomson 1909

  • But when he has hoisted sail, he sits on the out-rigger, as the sail balances the boat on the sailing side, opposite the wind.

    Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines John Stuart Thomson 1909

  • But sitting far out, on a bamboo out-rigger, high into the wind-side, above the water, a sailor was balancing the boat and holding the sail by a long rope.

    Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines John Stuart Thomson 1909

  • While we discussed this, around those jutting rocks shot a small out-rigger canoe, frail and hardly large enough to hold the body of

    White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

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