Sailing

Each rig has its own little special tricks of sailing differing from those of other rigs; but the main rules are the same for all, and one who has thoroughly grasped the mechani...

Board of Trade regulations concerning lights, fog signals, steering and sailing rules, pilot signals, etc.--Custom House clearance on returning from a foreign port--Explanation...

In the last chapter we have described the principal manœuvres that must be employed on a small yacht. This chapter will contain a variety of wrinkles connected with the manageme...

Other things being equal, the speed of a vessel increases with her size; so it has always been the custom to handicap yachts competing in a race by giving time allowance to smal...

BRIDLE.--A rope with its two ends fastened to the two ends of a spar--as to a trawl beam, or to a deep-sea anchor--and held by a rope attached to the middle of the bight.

A cutter’s bowsprit is not a fixture, as it is on the small boats we have so far described, but is made to slide in and out. It can be run in altogether when no jib is set; and...

The Spritsail rig is much used on small boats all round the coast of England. It is an exceedingly handy and safe rig, and the spritsail will set flatter and is better adapted f...

As soon as the amateur leaves the bay or river with whose features he is well acquainted and ventures to take his vessel along a coast unknown to him, he must provide himself wi...

In the first place no ballast should be stowed at either extremity of a vessel; it should, as far as is possible, be concentrated in the midship section. This cannot be done unl...

Having in the last chapter described the various instruments which enable a mariner to direct his course, we will now give some further explanations of the method of employing t...

Any object floating on the water will have a tendency to drift before the wind; but a boat, with its scientifically constructed hull, sails, and rudder, can be so guided as to s...

The following observations apply chiefly to small boats, which can be rowed as well as sailed, and be easily handled by one man--that is, boats from the smallest size up to abou...

A man cannot be even an amateur sailor until he knows his ropes. A great number of knots, hitches, bends, _et cætera_, are employed by sailors; but the skipper of a small fore-a...

The steering is done from the well, and all the sheets are belayed to cleats within easy reach of it. The well is surrounded with seats and lockers. The after locker is sometime...

Weather wisdom is more necessary to the man who travels along the coast in a small vessel than to any one else. A large vessel is constructed to encounter any weather with safet...

More, probably, could be written on boat-sailing than on any other sport; for this pursuit owes much of its extraordinary fascination to the fact that its science is practically...

As this is a treatise on small craft, we will speak of the cutter, yawl, and ketch-rigged yachts only, for the schooner rig is only adapted to a larger style of vessel.

Board of Trade regulations concerning lights, fog signals, steering and sailing rules, pilot signals, etc.--Custom House clearance on returning from a foreign port--Explanation...

Towing a dinghy--Berthon boats--To prevent a dinghy bumping against an anchored yacht--Foul anchor--Mooring--The drogue--The management of open boats in a heavy sea--Management...