PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 5 



: I 



SIXTH EDITION. 



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A MANUAL 



OF 



YACHT AND BOAT SAILING. 



By DIXON KEMP, 



Associate Institute Naval Architects (Member of the Council). 



AUTHOR OF "YACHT DESIGNING" AND "YACHT ARCHITECTURE." 



(The lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered this work to be supplied to 

 the Libraries of the ships of the Royal Navy.) 



This Edition has been largely re-written, and contains a great number of nev> 

 subjects, and the lines of many boats never before published, the total number of 

 Plates exceeding 100, besides more than 350 -woodcuts in the text. 



CHAP. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAP. 



I. Selecting a Yacht. 

 II. Examination and Survey of the 



Yacht before Purchasing. 

 III. Building a Yacht. 

 IV. The Equipment of the Yacht. 

 V. Seamanship. 



VI. The Managemen': of Open Boats. 

 VII. The General Management of a 



Yacht. 



VIII. Yacht Racing. 

 IX. Handling a Yacht in a Match. 

 X. Centre-Boards. 

 XI. Centre-Board Boats for Rowing 



and Sailing. 



XII. Sails for Centre-Board Boats. 

 XIII. Small Centre-Board Yachts. 

 XIV. Mersey Sailing Boats. 



APPENDIX contains complete instructions as to Practical Boat Building. This 

 section is arranged alphabetically in the form of a dictionary, and embodies a variety 

 of information connected with Yachts, Boats, the customs of the sea, laws relating to 

 seamen, nautical terms, and in fact everything which might be expected in a nautical 

 cyclopaedia. 



Full instruction is given as to the building and management of every boat 



described. 



XV. Clyde Sailing Boats. 

 XVI. Belfast Lough Boats. 

 XVII. Kingstown Boats. 

 XVIII. Cork Harbour Boats. 

 XIX. Itchen Boats. 

 XX. Falmouth Quay Punts. 

 XXI. Thames Bawley Boats. 

 XXII. Windermere Yachts. 

 XXIII. Yachts of the Norfolk Broads. 

 XXIV. Yachts of 3 Tons, 5 Rating, 



and 2% Rating. 



XXV. Single-Handed Cruisers. 

 XXVI. Types of Sailing Vessels. 

 XXVII. Double Boats. 

 XXVIII. Steam Yachting. 

 XXIX. Ice Yachting. 

 XXX. Canoeing. 



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