The Badminton Magazine 1898-04: Vol 6 Iss 33 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 69
r can easily get rid of. But so little freeboard do these boats show, that in anything approaching rough water the best handled is liable to get swamped. In consequence of the mast being stepped so far forward, the tendency in running before the wind is for a boat to bury her bows, and this is… … incident. Itis acontingency for which, however, every provision is made. In the first place no crew would allow anyone unable to swim to form one of their number. Again, every boat carries a small buoy secured by a sufficiently long line to allow it to come to the surface if the boat sinks. Thus…
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