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BOATS AND BOATING. 



It is frequently a matter of importance to place your boat 

 exactly in a certain spot, which is extremely difficult to effect in 

 a large boat, and often impossible in a tideway : therefore the 

 great advantages which a boat of moderate size has over a large 

 are, I think, sufficiently evident. 



A boat for general fishing where a harbour exists may be 

 fifteen feet in length, but if it exceeds this, it will be found too 

 heavy to work in calm weather single-handed. 



FIG. 8 1. Lugsail Boat with Jib and Mizen. 



Most of the fishing described in this work can be obtained 

 from a quarter of a mile to two miles' distance from the shore : 

 but as Whiting-fishing is often carried on at greater distances, 

 say from six to twelve miles, those who wish to follow it will 

 require a craft of not less than from sixteen to twenty feet keel, 

 twenty to twenty-five in length over all, and from three to five 

 tons, rigged as a dandy or yawl, and if decked to the mast with 

 a narrow water-way round her, so much the better. Many of 

 these boats are yachts in miniature, being built and fitted with 

 great taste. 



The Yawl or Dandy (fig. 82). The yawl is frequently 

 preferred to the cutter for fishing purposes (trawling or dredging 



