April 20, 1907.] 
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Did you ever see two master musicians de¬ 
scribing to one another some exceptionally fine 
rendition of music. Two of the real, genuine, 
Paderewski type whose whole soul and life was 
completely surrendered to music. How they, 
in describing the pathos expressed in some 
musical notes, involuntarily raise one or both 
hands and with fingers spread, just as would 
be needed to strike the notes their minds picture, 
they hum the air looking through each other’s 
eyes into the very musical soul of one another. 
It is not mere flesh and blood that talks at such 
times, but spirit to spirit the musical souls get 
in close communion. 
How little an outside observer can comprehend 
of such conversation, when his limit of music 
is the simple scale of do, ra, me, fa, etc., 
drummed in against the grain by a music teacher 
in a public school. 
Well, when two yachting “cranks,” as the gen¬ 
eral run would dub them, get talking yacht they, 
like the musicians, go so far above do, ra, me, 
fa yachtsmen that he might just as well quit 
and join the rocking chair fleet in a “high one.” 
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secrets he could pick up. The true essence of 
two lives whose whcle energy has been given up 
to a solution of problems that remain forever 
mysterious to the average yachtsman they analyze 
and express in a few .vords. 
It is such men who, when they get aboard 
a racing craft size h r up in the first feel of 
motion as she fills away from her moorings. He 
feels, knows, in an instant, whether all is har¬ 
mony with the yacht. Whether, like a perfectly 
tuned fiddle, every string has just the right ten¬ 
sion to vibrate as it should to produce the de¬ 
sired note. 
His face, were you to watch it closely, would 
tell like a barometer; a slight scowl, features 
strained as if listening and whole attitude one 
of deep attention. The majority of yachtsmen 
aboard are chatting about commodore so and 
so’s new craft, or discussing on the cut of a 
new style of yachting suit. 
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ballast against the wind’s pressure on the swell¬ 
ing canvas above him. He looks long and study- 
ingly at the sails. Is it flat enough, full enough ; 
is the draft in the right place. He watches 
closely the way the hull heels over. He looks 
forward, aft, lost in thought. You can see noth¬ 
ing but the anchors forward and wake aft. He 
watches like a cat does a mouse to see if the quar¬ 
ters crowd down too hard, to see if the leverage 
of sails and lead allow the hull perfect action, or 
if she crowds her bows too hard as she lifts and 
comes down on a gentle swell. 
Training has taught him what to look for and 
where to look, and thought has studied out the 
meaning of it all. You may ask how he can 
tell. How can a physician watching his sick 
patient tell. By a knowledge of what is going 
on far beyond your eyesight and by knowing 
where to look for favorable signs, where to look 
for unfavorable ones. 
Is not the boat there? Cannot he see, he, who 
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of the subject bv the way the yacht moves. By 
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“Steward, another round !” The ordinary yachts¬ 
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an inch or two of main sheet. 
But when he has stood the torture as long as 
his patience could stand it and then, to please 
him, you consent to slack sheet a little and give 
too much, the crank’s “No! no! that’s too much” 
causes a lot of fussing and unnecessary work 
to haul in an inch or two to get the sail just 
right. What a darned crank you put that old 
fossil down as. Yes. but when he feels the har¬ 
mony of action that takes place between hull and 
sail and notes the difference with which she 
speeds through the water, his satisfaction drowns 
out your uncomplimentary remarks, and like the 
musician who sits with eyes closed drinking in 
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