On Yacht Sailing: A Simple Treatise for Beginners upon the Art of Handling Small Yachts and Boats
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On Yacht Sailing - Thomas Fleming Day
Thomas Fleming Day
On Yacht Sailing
A Simple Treatise for Beginners upon the Art of Handling Small Yachts and Boats
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4057664576118
Table of Contents
PREFACE
SPECIAL REMARKS
GENERAL REMARKS
THE BOAT AND RIG
THE SIDES AND TACKS
THE HELM
NOMENCLATURE OF RIGGING AND SAIL.
SAILING ON THE WIND
SAILING OFF THE WIND
REEFING AND JIBING
TAKING CARE OF THE BOAT
MANEUVERS
RULES OF THE ROAD
Running Lights.
Anchor Lights.
Fog Signals.
Steam Vessel Signals.
GLOSSARY
Diagrams and Plans
DIAGRAM C.
SPAR AND RIGGING PLAN OF CAT BOAT.
SAIL PLAN OF CAT BOAT.
SPAR AND RIGGING PLAN OF SLOOP.
SAIL PLAN OF POLE MAST SLOOP.
SAIL PLAN OF TOPSAIL SLOOP.
SPAR AND RIGGING PLAN OF YAWL.
SAIL PLAN OF YAWL.
SAIL PLAN OF KETCH.
SPAR AND RIGGING PLAN OF SCHOONER.
SAIL PLAN OF SCHOONER.
LIST OF BOOKS.
PREFACE
Table of Contents
There
is no difficulty in the learned writing for the learned, but it is extremely difficult to compose a work for the instruction of the ignorant. The more comprehensive and exact knowledge the writer has of his subject the more arduous is the effort to express his thoughts in such simplicity as will make it understandable to those who have little or no knowledge of the subject he treats. This is doubly so when the subject is one like sailing—an art whose language is wholly technical and almost totally divorced from the common expressions of life. It is impossible to translate sea language into land language; nor is it possible to explain the conditions and operations of the art without employing sea terms.
In this work I have endeavored to avoid as far as is possible the employment of intricate or obscure technical language, and where it is used have endeavored to explain the meaning and define the application. This book is intended for the use of persons who are supposed to be altogether ignorant of the art of sailing. It is a primer and, therefore, is almost absurdly simple and profuse in explanatory details. But my experience as a teacher has taught me that such books cannot be too simple, and that in order to be understandable they must be loaded with explanations of explanations until nothing is left to explain. To those who know, this will seem unnecessary, but it must be remembered that many who will learn from this book, have not only never handled a sailing boat, but have never seen one before, and have but extremely crude notions of how the canvas and helm are employed to drive and direct them.
In regard to the glossary: The definitions given are those that define the terms as used in sailing or navigating small craft, and may have a different meaning when applied to larger vessels. It is very difficult to exactly define many nautical terms, as they are words in action, and consequently present different phases, as they are differently employed. In many cases only one who is a trained seaman can comprehend their exact purport or understand their significant application.
SPECIAL REMARKS
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The
first question before you start to learn to sail is: Do you know how to swim? If you don’t, you have no business in a sailing boat—in fact you have no business on the water. No parent should allow his boy or girl to have a sailboat until they have learned to swim. It is not difficult to learn to swim; any child can be taught that art in ten days, and it should be a compulsory course in all our schools. If people knew how to swim, nine-tenths of the drowning accidents that do happen would not. Every summer a large number of young people are drowned in this country through the overturning of boats or by falling overboard. Had these persons been taught to swim the majority of them would not have been drowned. A person who can swim has confidence. If suddenly thrown in the water he or she retain their presence of mind, but if unable to swim they become panic stricken, and are not only drowned but in their struggles frequently drown others.
Another custom prolific of accident on the water is the overloading of boats. The green hand should be warned against this practice. Never take a lot of people out in a boat, particularly a sailboat; especially do not take out women and children, or men who are not familiar with boats.
Another thing, never play the fool in a boat. A man who