, 1889-06-09

10 sheet, have ons man std ready to run
up the tb, another 10 break tho anchor on
the word, and nave the main sheet man push
the main boom ovU TO port
This win throw the stern of the boat up to
tho wind somewhat, then break anchor and
up tfh
As soon ns she pays off and fills away trim
you tib to leeward port ode nov1, get some
Of your centerboard down and you are ready
for the pleasantest OF all snils-ab beat TO wind
ward
You arc now on the starboard tack, sails
trimmed 30 port omany yachtsmen who ought
TO know better get this mixed up and are
close hauled II the wind Is down the river
and you are beating up, you go as close to
sbore as the depth OF water viii Justify and
get ready 10 gu about on tho port tack
The order Is Ready about or STAND by
for stays" according 10 the sweet viii of the
skipper The tfb sheet man then gets down
30 Toward, where tho jib sheet Is made fast,
the foremast hand goes forward to clear up
and the main sheet man looks out to sec that
that tho main sheet does not foul as 1t comes
over, or to take in q little slack when the
strain Is Oh II tho skipper wants the mainsan
any fintter.
When you sec that each one Is at his post
keep tho boat away a trt6e to give hcr good
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aIeer' and down helm Not hard down right
away, however, for that gives tho boat an
unnecessary drug with the rudder across her
stern; gfvo her tho holm gradually rs she loses
headwny and comes into the wind Tho man
at tho jib sheets must not let them go by the
run, as Is too often done, but slack Of on
them gradually, Keeping q strain on one
until no begins 10 draw away on the other.
This Will prevent tho jib from flying nwny
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her Roadway much better, q very important
thing in this m~aneuver, both for safety and
for speed
In fact, right hero 1t may be said that a
person who has charge of a boat, largo or
small, cannot have too firmly impressed upon
his mind the necessity of keeping q boat NOV
ing through the water. Most accidents come,
as viii DO explained moro In detail In a later
article, from the loss of Roadway. The rud-
dor has no power over a boat standing still,
though 1t has tho most perfect control of a
boat going ahead, and the faster she goes the
moro control tho rudder has
Then caro- must DO exercised in 4 filling AWAY,
both by tho helmsnan and tho jib sheet man,
not to allow tho boat to pay of too far when
the jib has first been trimmed. II she goes
oil too far and will not Immediately mind
tho befm to steody her, easo up o. tbe tfb
shee< and trim down again when she has
gathered WY Sufficient 30 gtvo helmsnan
control.
After having made a number of stretches
in this way, suppose that you conclude you
want to go straight across tho river. The
wind being down tbor river, this will give you
q benin wind, which, as the name signifies, Is
a w1nd blowing directly across the course of
tho yacht You will pull up your center
board tsome very fat boats need q little
board with a beam wind and START G.,
slack out your mnin and jib sheets. II tho
wind Is light your main boom should go out
to an nngie Of about forty degrees to the
keel, II fresh 1t must come in considerably
further. The jib will DO trimmed to about
the same angle, though this must be do
termined largely by how tho boat steers; If
she carries toe hard a helm tho jib should be
nattened to keep her Off, II she carries 1t
alee 1t must DO slnckened or the mainsail fat
toned In some to give her tho right helm A
yacht should always curry q weather helm,
except, possibly, In the hghtest kind OF
weather.
You want to go straight down tho river
for q while "Stick OUT your main sheet
until your main boom rs out to your rigging.
Then DO sure you steer steady" a perfectly
straight course down the river, for II you do
not you are liable 10 perform q very lub-
bcrly act-allow your mainsail to gybe with
out being ready for 1t.
0YBIEaL
This Is o delicate vancouver and Is often at
tended, through ignorance or carelessness,
with disagreeable r~csulta 1t consists-in a
sloop-of changing the mainsail from ono
side to the other while tho yacht is before
the wind. The man at tho holm must hold
his course straight down tho river, while the
mainsheet man, REINFORCED by the jibsheet
man, hauls IN the mainsheet He does this
handsomely until the mainboom Is In to
about the same place where 10 Is trimmed
for full md bye"
Then the man who Is helping him catches a
turn, the helmsman puts his helm up slightly,
the boats head swings slowly to starboard,
the wind catches the mninsail on the star
board side and throws 1t across the stern.
But 1t cannot go far nor get much Roadway
to rip things up, which IT sometimes does,
becanse 1t has been hauled in 80 short, and
because Of the turn on the cleat Then