PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



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A MANUAL 



OF 



YACHT AND BOAT SAILING. 



BY 



DIXON KEMP, A.I.N.A., 



AUTHOR OF " YACHT DESIGNING." 



CONTENTS. 



I? Selecting a Yacht. 

 II. Examination of the Yacht before 



Purchasing. 

 III. Building a Yacht. 

 IV. The Equipment of the Yacht, in- 

 cluding complete information 

 as to Spars, Rigging, Ac. 

 V. Seamanship. 



the Wind. Sailing by the 

 Off the Wind. Running before the 

 Ing. Orbing. Lying To, An 

 Under Way? Ac. It also gives 

 matlon a* to the Management 

 Open Boat*. 



VI. The General Management of a 

 Yacht, including Duty and Dis- 

 cipline of the Crew. 

 VII. Yacht Racing. 



Containing full information as to the ex- 

 penses of Yacht Racing, and an Exposition of 

 Yacht Racing Rules. 



VIII. Centre-board Boats. 



This chapter Includes designs for Centre- 

 board Boats for Rowing and Sailing, and the 

 best varieties of Sails, with working drawings. 



IX. Sails for Centre-board Boats. 



This chapter discusses the merits of the 

 various lug sails and sprit sails used, including 

 the Balance Lug, Chinese Lug, Ounter Sprit 

 Rig, Falmouth Luggers, Loweetoft Lateen 

 Sail, Algoa Bay Lateen Sail, fto. 



X. Brighton Beach Boats. 



XL Centre-board Sloop 

 XII. The Pollywog. 

 XIII. Lough Erne Yachts 

 XIV. Una Boats. 

 XV. The American Centre-board 



Sloop Parole. 

 XVI. The Sharpie and Sneak 



Boat. 



XVII. New Brighton Sailing Boats. 

 XVIII.-Lake Windermere Yachto. 

 XIX. Yachts of the Norfolk Broads. 

 XX. Itchen Boats Itchen Sailing 



Punts. 



XXI.-Clyde Sailing Boata. 

 XXII. Kingstown Boats. 

 XXIII. Yachts of Three, Five, and 



Ten Tons. 



XXIV. Penzance Luggers, Coble, 

 Galway Hooker and Pook- 

 haun, Norwegian Pilot 

 Boats, Ac. 



XXV. The Jullanar. 

 XXVI. Double Boats. 



This chapter Includes a full description of 

 the American Catamaran. 



XXV1L Steam Yachting. 

 XXVIII. Ice Yachting. 



XXIX.-Canoeing. 



Appendix. Contains complete instruc- 

 tions 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, Ac. 



Full instruction is given as to the Building and Management of every Boat 

 described. 



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