The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-06
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SAILING TOWN

What was the matter with you fel.
lows in the race asked the man at
the clubhouse VINO made it his busi.
ness to mold down the big armchair
reserved for the rocking chair fleet.
The young man who mad just jerked
big dinghy out of the water and
landed 1T nigh UP On the dock dropped
YEARLY into the bow seat and looked
at the speaker.
Say, this yachting business isn't
what it's cracked up to be, especially
when you take everyone advice" he
declared, bitterly. When bought
the Nancy all the wise fellows dropped
around one at time and IN punches
and suggested that I'd better get Dud.
ley to sail Lly boat for me the first
season. They pointed out that l was
new to the game and it wouldn't look
we'll for me to lose all the big silver
cups especially when had fast
boat"
so you got Dudley to do the stick
work, eh?"
well, l admit / was easy. / had
never sailed big boat before, and /
didn't want to make any bad breaks.
Dudley is a fine sailor. He would let
me come down and get everything
ready for him-just so many reefs in
the mainsail, all the big kites put
in stops, SO they would break out at
the right time-and when he came
aboard all he had to do was to make
suggestions and kicks.
Today we were to sail for the John
son cup. It's beauty and wanted
to take it out to Austin and show it to
my landlubber friends. So got Dud-
ley to sail the boat for me. It was
blowing pretty hard and we had In
two reefs and the staysail The way
we tore down the harbor toward the
line made me wish l was ashore, so
l could telephone to my friends that
the cup was a cinch for my yacht.
Before the starting gun was fired we
nearly ran clear through another yacht
that was jockeying near the line.
didn't like the way the boat was being
sailed, but thought it was because
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the game. Thought that perhaps the
stunt was to disable as many of the
boats in our class as possible-then 1t
would be easier for us to win. 1t
looked that way, for we luffedl into an
> other yacht and nearly lost our own
bowsprit. When we crossed the line
could almost sec that cup sitting OH
my dresser, for we were first and we
kept first-in fact, we went so fast that
the other yachts seemed to be an.
chored."
so you won the racer"
won nothing! When we got out to
the four-mile crib, which was the first
buoy we were to round, we passed it to
port and went sailing north. Then we
looked back to give the other fellows
the happy smile, and what do you
think! Every blamed boat went sail
ing gracefully around that crib, pass
ing it to starboard, and was off on the
southern course. We had the balloon
up and my expert sailor, instead OF
giving the boys up forward time to
get it in, as would have done, luffed.
The next minute l saw myself paying
out s25 for new SAIL"
Caught on the spreader?"
II should say it did-it ripped from
s.ssad to foot. We all talked at once.
insisted that the course was the way
the other boats went and Dudley final
ly admitted that he didn't really know
what the race was-just kind Of sup.
posed that the course was the way we
started to sail it.
when we got the balloon in and
staysail up the other boats were 80
far ahead that / said we might as
we'll go in. What was the use of rae
ing, anyhow, if you couldn't win? But
III sail my own boat after this.
Someone wants me at the tele-
phone? Wants to know whether l
won? Say, steward, just tell her
there wasn't any race-that the lake
was too rough