Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-07-05

cant mass nm when Won have done with it: some
thing that will be exclusively and peculiarly your
own; and in the process you Will learn to know
yourself. You will find that you are worth
knowing.
At this stage of the game It will pay you well
to cultivate the society of fshermen-not on
their smacks, but ashore when their work is done.
Like all who have been picked and sailed
down by the sea, they are a goodnatured breed,
and what many of them know about knots and
spices and the of the marlinspike would fill
volumes. If you are intelligent you will find that
they like teaching you almost much as they
like whisky and tobacco-even your whisky and
tobacco; when they find that you don't patronize
them and won't be patronized. their hearts will
go out to you-bg, strong. sea-salted hearts; you
will find that they have brand of humor ex-
clusively their own, and insight that you
never dreamed Of Their company is good
But beware of their ideas seamanshp!>
They will voice the usual belief that single
handlers are mad and that any port in storm
is better than no port; both of which beliefs are
rank heresy! But listen to them when they
talk OF using the lead for the soundinglead is to
a seaman what his nose is to hound and more
They will probably tell you that forty-pound an
Choir is heavy enough for any to handle
in tideway. but the size of the yacht you
intend TO handle later on must depend on the size
OF the anchor you can manage without assistance
and on nothing else, you will do we'll to remem
Der that there is veteran who has been sailing
singlehanded around the English Coast for some
thing like forty years who uses an anchor weigh
ing a hundred and twenty pounds for a yacht of
some thirty tons register!
And he does not buoy his anchor and leave it
in tide-rip when the glass is falling and he is
in hurry to be off He gets it up and fnboard
and cats 1t down on deck sailor-wise before he
starts. Things like that depend on seamanship;
and seamanship can be learned only on the high
seas from personal experience Spend most of
your time then, on the high in your little
mon v-b0af and In ,3ry
the ways of fishermen
The basis of your future independence will be
your seaanchor; and you must never under any
circumstances or for any reason whatever. put
to sea without one. 1t is nothing but canvas
bag, distended iron ring and dashed on to
the end of rope warp Without it you are
at the mercy of the wind and waves but with it.
II you use it properly you absolutely safe.
And its use is one of the simplest things con.
nected with boat
Most accidents at sea occur when running for
shelter before storm or from running before
the wind until II is too late to heave to without
swapping the boat. Get into your head that the
safest place in storm is the open sea, and the
most dangerous place is the entrance to harbor.
With your sea anchor out in front of you at the
end of a good stout warp to keep your boats nose
into the wind. you will be safe in any storm
that blows. provided that with seamanlike discre-
ton you have furled your sails and made every
thing fast in time And, provided that your boat
is of the right sort, you viii be warm and dry.
So get in the way of using your sea anchor.
when there is no necessity and learn to place in
plicit confidence in it.
The next most important thing to your sea an
Choir is the lead; you absolutely must learn to
take soundngs You will discover that there are
easier things to do than to handle small boat
and take soundings at the same time. even in
shallow water; but If you try hard enough and
often enough you will find out how TO do It: and
gradually you viii realize how it is that captains