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

determination to the utmost from the very start
as well as your power of observation And it will
call for the exercise of more discretion than any
other sport in world that is full of sports No
body can teach you but yourself and you can
teach yourself only by degrees
mere Is only one school for the beginner who
would really become one of the elect-the small
boat You must become waterman before you
tackle anything else man who can sail a
canoe, and sail her properly in any sort of wind
or weather, is past master of his art, and can
be safely trusted with any sort of craft anywhere
Remember that. But begin with a small open
boat-the smaller the better-and spend at least
season poking about in harbors and rivers. or
any kind of inland water, sailing her when you
can, and rowing when you must.
Never take anybody with you, and never call
on any one to help you. II you take an amateur
with you he will probay get frightened and fus-
ter you; and II you take hired man he will try
to teach you. and will surely teach you wrong.
besides doing things for you that you ought to
do yourself. At the end of season Of that sort
of thing you will have found out for yourself a
whole crowd of things that will be of inestimable
service to you later on, when you have passed
through your novitate; your hands will be hard
and horny; your muscles will feel firm and COM
Portable underneath your coat; and your health
will amaze you nearly as much your appetite.
Almost the first thing you will discover Will be
that your principal requirement. a singlehander
is nerve-a nerve that Is alive, but panic-proof.
If you have that, combined with real love of adj
venture and the spirit of independence; and IL
you start with the determination to do everything
for yourself and do 1t properly after finding out
for yourself which is the proper way; If you en-
JOY real hard work in the open air for your own
amusement you are in fair way to become
single chandler even before you start But however
good your nerve may be, it will need that pre-
liminary smail-boa training before you can trust
yourself safely on the open
Once Won are SIRE of Yourself and have mas
tered the first principles of almost the most diff
fcult art in the whole world, that of small boat
sailing, the whole world of adventure will be
at your feet the Seven Seas and all the navigabe
rivers are yours to explore and you can put out
on the only remaining trail where nothing is stale
and monotonous and where every wave and hol-
low, every creek and inlet. though as old as the
everlasting ages is to each sea-borne adventurer
UNEMPLOYED, aluring, and absolutely new. Moth
ms ever happens twice in the way at sea-
or ever looks quite the same twice running
There are no beaten tracks to follow. for the sea
ob1terates them. 1t is all new always-yours to
plow up and explore to your hearts content.
But steady! That is what is ahead Of you.
You are no single-hander yeti And if you leave
your small boat in the harbor and go sailing on
some one elses yacht, buy a yacht OF your
own that is too big for you to handle by your
self, you will neves be one. The worst thing you
can do is to get into the grip OF the hired man
The next worst thing is to make one of a yachting
party. In either case you will learn to believe
that it takes three or four men to reef mainsail.
and at least two men to get up anchor: that var
nished decks are things to be desired; that you
should run for shelter when II comes on n hlovv
gale of wind, and other heresies of that sor+
stick to your own opinions that YOU have he
gun to form already as the result Of your 6rst
seasons experience stick to your original ,nten.
ton OF becoming single-hander. and above all
things, stick Tor the present to vour small 49,
Put out TO sea. Practice on the sea xvbo+ ~,
have already learned to do in the harbor and on