

AuG. 10, 1907.] 

FOREST AND STREAM. 

aft along the lee side. 
I expected to see bubbles coming up, but to 
my astonishment and joy, there was my little | 
craft, half sunk, it is true, but still afloat. So 
with another wild leap I landed back on her 
deck, both hands gripping the mast. The 
Badger fellows tried to stop me when they saw 
I was about to jump, but were as astonished as 
I to see me land sate and dry aboard her 
Badger filled away, and, like a drunken man. 
went reeling across the bay, sailing a most 
erratic course. My own craft lay to with sheets 
fluttering but well behaved and motionless, while 
I pumped a couple of barrels of water out of 
her and wondered, as I looked up at the blue 
sky, the green foliage ashore and the many 
white sails of the pleasure craft all as serene and 
peaceful and beautiful as could be, if I had been 
run over by a trolley car or only hit by an 
automobile. C. G. Davis. 

The Gravy Eye Watch. 
Any one who has sailed much at night knows 
how difficult it is to keep awake in the last: few 
hours befor¢ dawn; it is during these few hours | 
most of the accidents happen on the water. 
Aboard ships part of the crew sleep from eight 
till midnight, then those on deck go below and 
the sleepers turn out and take their places. 
It is this sleepy gang of men, who, interrupted 
in a night’s sleep, get drowsy when turned out 
into the night—the natural time for sleep—are 
responsible for most. of the accidents. Toward 
dawn, about between two and four, the light in 
the sky turns to an uncertain kind of a haze— 
very often the approaching heat of day coming 
with the light produces vapors which rise off 
the water like a thin fog. The light is uncertain; | 
the haze makes it more uncertain, and a sleepy, 
tired man thinking of the warm cot more than 
of his duty on deck, makes this, the gravey-eye | 
watch, as sailors call it, the most dangerous one | 
of all at sea. 
From a yachtsman’s standpoint this same 
watch is most ‘important, owing to the many 
ocean races now all the rage. A yachtsman, as 
a rule, has had but little experience at rough 
sailing. Some, it is true, have done some of it, 
but not for a steady diet—a little goes a long 
ways with them. 
many a race is won and lost. 
There was such an event a year ago. Two 
boats had sailed almost even up ,all day in a 
Stratford Shoal race and rounded the light about 
midnight 
mark in a falling wind. Tack after tack one 
rival followed every move of the other, so ex- 
tinguishing their cabin lights and taking in their 
light that shown his way each time, the leading 
yacht firally gave her pursuers the slip and got | 
across to the other side of the Sound unseen. 
the others holding on for the Connecticut shore. 
while at daybreak the leaders were off the Long 
Island beach, got the morning breeze first and 
came home hours in the lead. 
On another such race one opponent held on 
to the other in the same way, tack after tack, 
until about 3 o’clock in the morning, when, for 
some unaccountable reason, one suddenly be- 
gan to leave the other fast; and by daylight had 
him licked. It seems one man had been sailing 
one of the boats all the afternoon and night and 
got so sleepy by 3 o’clock he had to give up and 
let some one unused to night sailing take the 
helm, which accounted for the difference in the 
boat’s actions. 
A boat sailing that way wants two skippers 
aboard—one to relieve the other. If it were 
only a cruise the yacht was on, it would matter 
but little who steered her, but when it is a race, 
there should be a good man at the helm all the 
time, and as those races last about 24 hours, it 
is too long for any one man to stay at the stick 
or wheel. 
By doing things in ship shape. style guch a 
race becomes -far more enjoyable than if 
all hands sit up and smoke and spin twisters till 
past midnight—then the whole crew are so 
tired they all want to sleep at once. By divid- 
ing the crew into two watches, each one taking 
turns of four hours each, there will be some 
chance for all to sail or sleep. If they do not 

It is during this sleepy watch | 
and started to beat back to the home | 
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