Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise
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- PRACTICAL BOAT-SAILING:
- A Concise and Simple Treatise ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SMALL BOATS AND YACHTS UNDER ALL CONDITIONS, WITH EXPLANATORY CHAPTERS ON ORDINARY SEA-MANŒUVRES, AND THE USE OF SAILS, HELM, AND ANCHOR, AND ADVICE AS TO WHAT IS PROPER TO BE DONE IN DIFFERENT EMERGENCIES; SUPPLEMENTED BY A SHORT VOCABULARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS. BY DOUGLAS FRAZAR, FORMERLY FOURTH OFFICER OF THE STEAMSHIP "ATLANTIC," MASTER OF THE BARK "MARYLAND," AND COMMANDER OF THE YACHT "FENIMORE COOPER" IN THE NORTHERN SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN.
- PREFACE.
- MOTHER GOOSE (slightly altered).
- CONTENTS.
- PRACTICAL BOAT-SAILING.
- CHAPTER I.
- THE MODEL, RIG, AND NAMES OF THE SAILS AND ROPES IN COMMON USE.
- CHAPTER II.
- BALLAST.
- KNOTS.
- TO MAKE A BOWLINE KNOT.
- TO MAKE TWO HALF-HITCHES.
- TO MAKE A SQUARE OR REEF KNOT.
- THE ANCHOR AND GEAR.
- TO ANCHOR IN A GALE OF WIND.
- GETTING THE ANCHOR, AND CASTING.
- ANCHORING FOR FISHING.
- GROUNDING AND FLOATING.
- WARPING BY MEANS OF AN ANCHOR.
- A RUNNING MOOR
- CHAPTER III.
- THE HELM AND RUDDER
- SHEETS.
- THE TOPPING-LIFT.
- SPRINGING A LEAK, AND THE USE OF THE PUMP.
- CLOSE-HAULED.
- TO KNOW WHEN THE YACHT IS AS NEAR THE WIND AS SHE WILL SAIL
- RUNNING FREE.
- BEFORE THE WIND, OR SCUDDING.
- PILOT'S LUFF.
- CHAPTER IV.
- TACKING
- JIBING, OR WEARING.
- BEATING TO WINDWARD IN A TIDE-WAY.
- TO TAKE IN A JIB, AND FURL IT.
- TO TAKE IN A MAINSAIL, AND FURL IT.
- REEFING.
- TO REEF A JIB, OR TAKE OFF THE BONNET.
- TO PUT ONE REEF IN A MAINSAIL.
- TO TAKE IN A SECOND REEF.
- TO SHAKE OUT A REEF.
- CHAPTER V.
- SIGNAL-LIGHTS.
- RULES OF THE ROAD; OR, STEERING AND SAILING RULES OF THE UNITED STATES.
- RULES GOVERNING FOG-SIGNALS.
- STEERING AND SAILING RULES.
- SALUTES.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CROSS-BEARINGS.
- USE OF THE CHARTS.
- SOUNDINGS
- EIGHT BELLS, AND WATCH AND WATCH.
- BOXING THE COMPASS
- TO PLACE A COMPASS TO STEER BY.
- VELOCITY OF WIND.
- THE LOG, REEL, AND HALF-MINUTE GLASS.
- BUOYS.
- MAN OVERBOARD.
- CHAPTER VII.
- PRACTICAL HINTS ON BOAT-SAILING.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- A SHORT CRUISE WITH A SLOOP-YACHT, ILLUSTRATING THE COMMON SEA-MANŒUVRES.
- CHAPTER IX.
- VOCABULARY OF SEA-TERMS COMMONLY IN USE.
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