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Boat sailing in fair weather and foul
The Choice of a Boat—Advantages of Stationary Ballast and a Centerboard—How to Avoid Being "Done" in a Boat Trade—Bargains at the Navy Yard—The Way to Cure a "Nail-Sick" Craft 22
Chapters
19. CHAPTER XX.
All of us remember the old sailor's retort to the man who reproached him for soaking his clay in bad rum. "There ain't such a thing under heaven as _bad_ rum," he sagely remarke...
6. CHAPTER VI.Keep Your Weather-Eye Open All the Time When Afloat—How to Handle a Boat in Heavy Weather or a Summer Squall—The Use of the Sea Anchor in Riding Out a Gale, and How Shipwreck Ma...
3. CHAPTER III.Trial Spin in a Cat-Boat—How to Get Under Way, Beat to Windward and Run Back, with Instructions How to Act if Caught in a Squall or Stranded on a Shoal, and How to Avoid Collisi...
4. CHAPTER IV.Advantages of the Yawl-Rig for General Cruising Purposes, especially when "Single Handed," with a Description of a Representative Craft—Disadvantages of the Ballast Fin for All...
2. CHAPTER II.The Choice of a Boat—Advantages of Stationary Ballast and a Centerboard—How to Avoid Being "Done" in a Boat Trade—Bargains at the Navy Yard—The Way to Cure a "Nail-Sick" Craft 22
8. CHAPTER VIII.Fitting Out for a Cruise—Hints on Equipping and Provisioning a Boat so as to be Prepared for All Emergencies—A Sailor's Solution of the Culinary Problem—Hot "Grub" in a Gale 115
11. CHAPTER XI.Rigging and Sails, with Some Impartial Remarks on the Lanyard and the Deadeye, as Opposed to the Turnbuckle—Standing and Running Gear, and the Bending and Setting of Canvas 155
12. CHAPTER XII.7. CHAPTER VII.14. CHAPTER XIV.1. CHAPTER I.13. CHAPTER XIII.5. CHAPTER V.10. CHAPTER X.17. CHAPTER XVII.18. CHAPTER XVIII.9. CHAPTER IX.16. CHAPTER XVI.15. CHAPTER XV.