Practical Boat-Sailing
by Douglas Frazar
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About this eBook
- Author
- Frazar, Douglas, 1836-1896
- Title
- Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Eric Skeet and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Sailing
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39805
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39805
- Release Date
- May 26, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.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.
- 2.PREFACE. — MOTHER GOOSE ( slightly altered ).
- 3.CONTENTS. — PRACTICAL BOAT-SAILING.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — THE MODEL, RIG, AND NAMES OF THE SAILS AND ROPES IN COMMON USE.
- 5.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
- 6.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.
- 7.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.
- 8.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.
- 9.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.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — PRACTICAL HINTS ON BOAT-SAILING.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — A SHORT CRUISE WITH A SLOOP-YACHT, ILLUSTRATING THE COMMON SEA-MANŒUVRES.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — VOCABULARY OF SEA-TERMS COMMONLY IN USE.
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