Hints to Young Yacht Skippers
UNIFORM EDITION RUDDER
SERIES Bound in blue buckram and gold, 32mo, illustrated
ON YACHTS AND YACHT HANDLING. By Thomas Fleming Day. Price $1. ON MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR LAUNCHES. By E. W. Roberts, M. E. Price $1. ON YACHT ETIQUETTE. Second Edition Revised. By Captain Patterson. Price $1. SOUTHWARD BY THE INSIDE ROUTE. Reprint from The Rudder. HINTS TO YOUNG YACHT SKIPPERS. By Thomas Fleming Day. Price $1.
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Copyright 1904 BY Thomas Fleming Day ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THOMSON & COMPANY PRINTERS 9 MURRAY ST., NEW YORK U. S. A.
TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE SPRINGFIELD YACHT CLUB
This book is the response to a constant appeal for information. During the last nine years I have received thousands of letters, asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts. The majority of these letters came from boys and young men living throughout the world, who were just entering the sport, and who were anxious to become skillful sailors and competent skippers. I can thoroughly understand their position, and sympathize with their desire for fuller and more practical knowledge than that contained in the majority of works upon yachting.
What knowledge I possess of this art, or profession, I have gained by years of hard work and close observation, and having begun my studies when very young can testify to the dearth of literature of value to the green hand, who is looking for practical hints that will help him to become a skillful yacht sailor. Had I possessed a book like this, it would have saved me time, money and lots of hard work and anxiety.
But, in using this book, it must be remembered that a hint is not a law or a command, it is simply a concise statement for you to take, think over, and make use of, if it appears to be logical and practical. There may be better and easier ways of doing many of these things I speak of—that is for you to find out. I am an authority only as far as my knowledge goes, and no further. The basis of my authority is my years of observation and experience; your right to confute my findings can only be based on similar premises. Unless you have tried and proved that my instructions are wrong, they are still good medicine.
Thomas Fleming Day
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INTRODUCTION.
Buying a Boat:
Buying a Racer:
Buying a Cruiser:
Buying a Boat Afloat:
Buying From Fads:
Buying From Reason:
Buying out of repair:
Buying through a broker:
Inventory:
Nautical instruments, charts, etc.:
Boat’s name:
Masts:
Masts:
Booms:
Rigging on racing craft:
Hoops:
Blocks:
Spinnaker pole, how to rig it for racing:
Spinnakers:
Spinnakers:
Spinnaker, to shift one from side to side:
Spinnaker, to set a, when rigged with a lift:
Spinnaker pole:
Crew, stations for:
Crew stations for getting underway:
Light sails, handling:
Crew stations for reefing:
Crew stations for setting a spinnaker:
Sails:
Sails:
Sails:
Sails:
Hoisting sails:
Stowing sails:
Sail covers:
Storm jibs:
Shifting jibs in heavy weather:
Coils of gear:
Running gear:
Running rigging:
Jib sheets:
Peak downhaul:
Mainsail hoisting on track:
Reefing at night:
Reefing:
Tacks for reefing:
Pendants for reefing:
Reefing:
Reefing:
Reefing:
Reef, shaking out a:
Reefing before starting:
Running off:
Running off in a seaway:
Mainsheet:
Jibing a mainsail:
Wearing a yawl:
Steering a yawl:
Jibing a yawl:
Coming to at a dock:
Lying at a dock or pier:
Clubbing:
Sailing in a current:
Sailing against current:
Tide under the lee:
Current, sailing in a calm:
Anchored in a current:
Heaving-to:
Lying-to:
Lee shores:
Weather shore:
Caught on a lee shore:
Miss-staying in a seaway:
Miss-staying in a seaway:
Caught on a lee shore:
Sailing in a seaway:
Sailing in a seaway:
Mizzen on a yawl:
Mizzen on a yawl:
Working to windward:
Working to windward:
Working to windward cruising:
Light sails, sheeting:
Rounding a mark:
Rounding a mark:
Rounding a mark:
Rounding, a windward mark:
Trimming:
Balloon-jib sheet, to shift a:
Shroud-parting:
Burst main sheet:
Mast carried away:
Burst bobstay:
Want of speed, i:
Want of speed, ii:
Want of speed, iii:
Speed, to judge:
Towing:
Towing alongside:
Towing:
Towing, to tack when:
Anchors:
To get an anchor in a seaway:
To get a line on a fluke:
To sweep an anchor:
To lay out an anchor:
To lay out a heavy anchor:
To raise a heavy anchor:
Anchoring:
Moorings:
Making a mooring:
Making a mooring to leeward:
Mooring hook:
Mooring warp:
Mooring chain:
Dropping a mooring:
Moorings:
Hawsers:
Chain:
Anchored in an exposed harbor:
Anchor light:
Lights:
Light, a flare:
Lights, binnacle:
Side lights:
Stern light:
Water tanks:
Water:
Medicine chest:
Log:
Barometers:
Weather:
Winds:
Winds:
Squalls:
Squalls:
Squalls, time of:
Squall, struck by a:
Tides:
Tides:
Tides:
High water:
High water:
Tides:
Attraction:
Working craft and steamers:
Coasters:
Anchored vessels:
Underway, vessels:
Cruising:
Making a quick run:
Accidents to men:
Lead line, to make a:
Leaks:
Leaks:
Leaks:
Leaks:
Leaks:
Leaks, stopping:
Leak, to frap a:
Scupper-pipe leaking:
Lookout reports:
Side lights:
Working forward at night:
Lookout:
Watch tackle:
Tack, which:
Off the wind:
Right of way:
Swigging a tackle:
Reef points:
Peak halyards:
Crew and skipper:
Skipper’s duties:
Skipper and mate:
Standing order to mate:
Crew, discipline:
Injury to sails:
Mending sails:
Knotting and splicing:
Washing down:
Keeping clean below:
Tool box:
Bos’n stores:
Pump:
Pumping:
Ballast:
Ballast, kinds of:
Bilges:
Gasolene pipes:
Lead line:
Knife:
Oars:
Lashings and stops:
INDEX
TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL
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