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    Hints to Young Yacht Skippers
    Hints to Young Yacht Skippers
    Hints to Young Yacht Skippers
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    Hints to Young Yacht Skippers

    By Thomas Fleming Day

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    Hints to Young Yacht Skippers is a manual by Thomas Fleming Day. Fleming Day was a sailboat designer and sailboat racer and the founding editor of The Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats. This book is a manual for all subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066216146
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      Hints to Young Yacht Skippers - Thomas Fleming Day

      Thomas Fleming Day

      Hints to Young Yacht Skippers

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4064066216146

      Table of Contents

      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

      Sailing boat.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      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.

      If a man, especially a young one, decide to go into yachting, he should also decide to learn the business of handling these craft from the keel up. It is not sufficient, as many of you think, that all that is necessary is to learn how to sail a boat about. You should know not only how to sail her, but you should know why she sails, and all about the gear and canvas used to propel her. You should learn to rig and unrig, to care for and to understand every part of her structure, both above and below decks. It is certainly a sorry spectacle to see a man sailing a yacht who cannot tie a proper knot, splice a rope, or bend a sail, and who does not know the terms used to designate parts of the structure which he essays to manage. If he is ashamed to learn, or if he is too lazy to gather such knowledge, he is out a place in a sport which is the life and joy of energetic, skillful and brave men.

      I hope all of my boys the world over who are coming into yachting, and to assist whom I have written these words, will never be ashamed to learn the sailor’s trade, or be too lazy to acquire

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