Remember that sound travels a long way on the water, and do not criticise the people you may encounter with too loud a voice.
Don’t go on a friend’s yacht with nailed shoes (the commodore of a Thames sailing club once came on board mine in cricket shoes armed with spikes). Don’t knock the ashes out of your pipe into his boat, and don’t catch small fish and litter his decks with them, leaving them for him to clean up after you.
Don’t moor outside another yacht without the permission of its owner.
Ladies, please don’t gather armfuls of flowers, berries, and grasses which, when faded, you leave in the boat or yacht for the unfortunate skipper to clear up. Don’t play the piano in season and out of season (the reedbird’s song is sweeter on the Broads); and don’t turn out before eight o’clock in the morning when other yachts are near.
Observing all these simple maxims, any number of visitors will find plenty of room for their own enjoyment, without offence to anyone.
CHAPTER I.
the “broad” district.
