Small-boat sailing; an explanation of the management of small yachts, half-decked and open sailing-boats of various rigs; sailing on sea and on river; cruising, etc (1902)
Knight, Edward Frederick, 1852- [from old catalog] · New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 29
OF A BOAT beings. Even as a human life is more secure afterit has safely passed the period of infantile ailments,so, too, the vessel that has knocked about for yearsis to be relied on if she still shows no symptomsof decay. Her original constitution must havebeen sound ; her timbers must have been… … ||lj}klffl«:iJIl^^ — -^ m Ofi Venice. A good stout old vessel, for example, was myyawl, the Alerte, of fifty-six tons, yacht measure-ment. She was nearly thirty years old when Icrossed the North and South Atlantic in her, andlay hove-to for months in the often stormy sea offthe desert island of…
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