Practical Boat Sailing a Concise And Simple Treatise On the Management of Small
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The slightest movement of the tiller will keep the sail just quivering in the wind, the boat still advancing, so that she will not lose steerage-way ; thus enabling one to at once luff up nearer to the wind, or change the boat's position rapidly, should the wind, which is often the case, shift its direction suddenly. Nothing is of more importance than to keep steerage-way on the boat, as it is only in the ut- IO4 Practical Boat-Sailing. most emergency that the sheet should be slacked wholly off..., and the headway lost. If the boat is well under command when the squall is seen advancing, then the method of steer- ing into the wind's eye may be safely adopted, anil is, in fact, the better and more seamanlike method. In small sail-boats on ponds, or arms of the sea, when a thunder-shower is coming up, which can always be seen in time, it is, as a rule, much the safest plan to take the boat as quickly as possible towards the nearest harbor or land, unless rocky, inaccessible, or dangerous ; in which case, furl all sail and let go an anchor, paying out such a scope of cable that the boat will ride easily.
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