CHAPTER VI. 
BOAT-FISHING. 
OF the management of large and small boats 
Manabe it is not proposed to treat in this place. 
ment of Some useful hints were given in Wilcocks’s 
boats Svea Fisherman, and so serious a subject 
would need far greater space than I have at my 
disposal. The two most difficult operations in 
breezy weather are launching and beaching, the 
former being the most trying. One rule may be 
given, which is, I think, without exception, and 
that is, when launching a small boat in broken 
water put all the weight in the stern and of course 
head her seawards. If there are two fishermen 
going out, one should be seated in the stern, 
quickly getting amidships with the oars as soon 
as there is water enough to float her, the other 
jumping in as lightly as possible when she is in 
about two feet, but never on the top of a wave. In 
smooth weather, more than half these precautions 
can be neglected, and both may get away dry- 
footed. 
In beaching a boat, it is safer, unless the sea is 
calm, to back in stern first on the top of cach 
wave, backing water into cach sca as it comes by 
