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Ballast.--Useful Knots.--To anchor in a Gale of Wind.--Getting the Anchor, and Casting.--Anchoring for Fishing.--Grounding and Floating.--Warping by Means of an Anchor.--To make a Running Moor 17
Ballast.--Useful Knots.--To anchor in a Gale of Wind.--Getting the Anchor, and Casting.--Anchoring for Fishing.--Grounding and Floating.--Warping by Means of an Anchor.--To make...
3. CHAPTER III.The Helm and Rudder.--Sheets.--The Topping-Lift.--Springing a Leak and the Use of the Pump.--Sailing "close-hauled," "by the wind," or "full and by."--To know when a Yacht is as...
4. CHAPTER IV.Tacking.--Beating to Windward.--A Long and a Short Leg.--How to put a Yacht about.--How to distinguish the Starboard Tack from the Port Tack.--Jibing, or Wearing.--Dropping the...
5. CHAPTER V.Signal-Lights.--The United States Regulations for Steering and Sailing, and the Rules of the Road.--Fog-Signals.--Salutes. --Dipping Colors.--Coming alongside.--Quarterdeck Etiq...
6. CHAPTER VI.Cross-Bearings.--Two Examples.--Table of Proportional Distances.--Table for Determining the Distance that an Object at Sea can be seen in Statute Miles.--Determining Distance by...
7. CHAPTER VIII.8. CHAPTER I.It would be beyond the province or scope of this work to enumerate all the different models and peculiarities of the numerous crafts and rigs that are used to navigate the water...
9. CHAPTER II.Ballast.--Useful Knots.--To anchor in a Gale of Wind.--Getting the Anchor, and Casting.--Anchoring for Fishing.--Grounding and Floating.--Warping by Means of an Anchor.--To make...
10. CHAPTER III.The Helm and Rudder.--Sheets.--The Topping-Lift.--Springing a Leak and the Use of the Pump.--Sailing "close-hauled," "by the wind," or "full and by."--To know when a Yacht is as...
11. CHAPTER IV.Tacking.--Beating to Windward.--A Long and a Short Leg.--How to put a Yacht about.--How to distinguish the Starboard Tack from the Port Tack.--Jibing, or Wearing.--Dropping the...
12. CHAPTER V.Signal-Lights.--The United States Regulations for Steering and Sailing, and the Rules of the Road.--Fog-Signals.--Salutes.--Dipping Colors.--Coming alongside.--Quarterdeck Etiqu...
13. CHAPTER VI.Cross-Bearings.--Two Examples.--Table of Proportional Distances.--Table for Determining the Distance that an Object at Sea can be seen in Statute Miles.--Determining Distance by...
14. CHAPTER VII.If the sail is loose, and the boom, or lower leach of the sail, as the case may be, can move in a direction parallel to the wind, or in the "wind's eye" as sailors would say, th...
15. CHAPTER VIII."Well, uncle Charley, when are you going to give me a sail in your yacht? You know, that, although I have sailed a little, I look forward with the greatest impatience to a trip...
16. CHAPTER IX.ABEAM.--Any object is said to be abeam that bears at right angles to the line of the keel; and an imaginary line drawn at right angles across the keel, equidistant from the bow...