Excerpt from Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul Ever since I was high enough to look over the gunwale of a skiff I have been a devoted lover of the water. My first experience as a navigator was as the bold skipper of a raft consisting of three timbers lashed together, more or less securely, with a sheet fresh from the linen chest ingeniously spread as a sail. No doubt I felt as happy as the primeval savage with a hollow tree for a ship and a skin of some wild beast extended to catch the favoring breeze. Since that eventful period I have had not a little experience with boats, their rigging, their equipment and their sailing. If any of this knowledge can be of practical use to the amateur boat sailer or yachtsman, the object of this work will have been achieved and the desire of the author gratified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.