PRACTICAL BOAT-SAILING: A Concise and Simple Treatise ON THE- MANAGEMENT OF SMALL BOATS AND YACHTS UNDER AS TO WHAT IS PROPER TO BE DONE IN DIFFERENT EMERGENCIES; SUPPLEMENTED BY A SHORT VOCABULARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS. BY DOUGLAS FRAZAR, FORMERLY FOURTH OFFICER OF THE STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC," MASTER OF THE BARK MARYLAND,' AND COMMANDER NORTHERN SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. Nav 558.15 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF MRS. ELLEN HAVEN ROSS JUNE 28, 1938 COPYRIGHT, 1879, By LEE AND SHEPARD. All rights reserved, PREFACE. THIS little work is not written to teach any thing new to those who know how to sail boats well and safely, but only for the purpose of enabling any person, after a perusal of its pages, to feel confident of handling a boat so as to be perfectly safe, and to have some knowledge of the rules which should govern its movements under all conditions that might naturally arise. This sport is far less dangerous than is supposed; and it may even be asserted that no kind of amusement is safer during the summer months in these latitudes,—many not as safe. Some one has truly said "that the boat is always under the perfect control, and subject to the will, of its master; whilst in driving, for instance, one is dependent for life and limb upon the forbearance, good-temper, and training of a brute whose strength is greater than one's own, and whose over-vaunted intelligence is often exceeded by his obstinacy." It is simply wonderful what stress of wind and sea a small boat will sustain with perfect safety when properly managed. |