. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. of which these boatsare not so easily managed when the wind is strong and fair. \ dm Ms Mr I r \1» && 1s R-i •? \ v£,;. ,. -? •—*Mis Petite Aniie in a Gust. The clever Parisian builders, who work chiefly for the Seine,attach the greatest importance to rapidity of evolution which isof less consequence in more open waters. I should have liked totry the Arar in company with this boat, but her comparative 328 The Saoii. slowness in stays would only have put us out of temper. Thenext day I invited the owner
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. of which these boatsare not so easily managed when the wind is strong and fair. \ dm Ms Mr I r \1» && 1s R-i •? \ v£,;. ,. -? •—*Mis Petite Aniie in a Gust. The clever Parisian builders, who work chiefly for the Seine,attach the greatest importance to rapidity of evolution which isof less consequence in more open waters. I should have liked totry the Arar in company with this boat, but her comparative 328 The Saoii. slowness in stays would only have put us out of temper. Thenext day I invited the owner of Petite Amie and a friend of his *to sail on the Arar as they seemed curious to try her. We weresix on board, counting two little boys who were certainly theornaments of the boat. The boys were stowed away safely inthe small fore-deck on rugs, very happy to be in this strangenew kind of vessel. We had first to go to windward up the riverand then return with a fair wind. Our guests took a keen scien-tific interest in the catamaran, and seemed to find her both. ? it—??muml flflff>IffMMIHf - - hi the Basinabove Neuvillc. handier and faster than they had imagined. I believe they hadinwardly suspected that we should be obliged to use the oar incoming about. Catamaran sailing gives quite a peculiar sensation, which forour guests had the charm of novelty. The wonder is to see aboat getting up her speed without heeling, in fact, you may sailthrough a gust of wind without spilling a drop from a wine-glass, I mean on protected water. On a catamaran, too, yourrelations with the water, though not dangerous, are very closeand intimate. You see the emerald stream rushing faster than1 M. LEplattenier, also a member of the Neuville Yacht Club. A Summer Voyage. 329 the Rhone under the suspended deck which is only a lightbridge, and even small waves may splash harmlessly over thehulls. I feel, said M. Vibert, as if I were sailing on a plank. Immediately after this trial of the A
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