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i8. Never sail strange waters without a chart, or what is better, without a 

 pilot. 



£9. As a stranger to them, avoid tide-rips and whirls. 



20. Be cool in emergencies. If sailing wth company, do not let them distract 

 your attention from the management of your boat. 



21. Remember that on the wind the starboard tack has the right of way over 

 the port ; and that a vessel sailing on the wind has the right of way over one that 

 has her sheet off. 



These rules apply to cat rigged boats especially. Id the main they apply to 

 sloop rigged boats also. 



SUGGESTIONS. 



1. If alone it is convenient to have the peak halliard led aft. 



2. The average of boats sail in moderate winds and smooth waters within four 

 points of the wind. 



3. A boat on the wind sails better with the gaff to the leeward of the top- 

 ping-lift. 



4. Keep your boom well set up. 



5. The upper and outer half of your sail gives the most of yoiir speed when 

 you are on the wind. 



6. If your boat carries a lee helm, watch her. 



7. In keeping your boat off from the wind, where your room is limited, pull up 

 your board and flat your sheet. Settling the peak also helps this movement. 



8. Learn to work your boat while sitting down. 



g. Finally, if you don't know that you know how to manage a boat in every 

 particular, hire a competent man to go with you and teach you. 



The Al Fresco Boat. — This is a boat invented by Dr. Chas. J. 

 Kenworthy of Jacksonville, Florida, for use in that State. Length; 

 fifteen feet ; beam, four feet eight inches ; depth between deck and 

 ceiling, seventeen inches ; almost wall-sided, and flat in floor at 

 point of greatest beam ; good entrance and exit, or, in other words, 

 fine lines forward and aft ; deck same as sneak-box, dipping five 

 inches from centre of cock-pit to each side, and to stem and stem ; 

 cock-pit four feet long by two feet two inches wide ; hatches ten 

 by fourteen inches abaft the mast and cock-pit to stow provisions 

 and general plunder ; centre-board, three feet long ; cat-rigged, 

 with gaff" or spreets and sliding gunter; canvas apron as in sneak 

 box, to be used when beating to windward ; bulkhead at after part 

 of cock-pit. In such a boat provisions and plunder can be pro- 

 tected from the weather, two persons can be comfortably accom- 

 modated and lodged ; she can be easily transported ; provided 

 with hatch from cock-pit she can be converted into a Saratoga 

 trunk ; she works well under sail, rows easily, and proves com- 

 fortable and sea-worthy in a sea way. Owing to the shape of her 

 deck and protected cock-pit, she would weather a severe storm. 



