Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . B6 BRITISH YACHTING. AS heavy main boom is very much modified, $13,000,000, and independent of amateurs, and consequently a yawl of the same size the number of paid hands required by the as a cutter can be handled by a smaller yachts is close upon 12,000 men. These crew. Sloops have never been popular in are probably the smartest seamen to be. QUEEN MAB. England, and the few that are now sailed found sailing under the British flag; they are only craft of the smallest size. arc in fact a distinct class, and differ The capital s
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . B6 BRITISH YACHTING. AS heavy main boom is very much modified, $13,000,000, and independent of amateurs, and consequently a yawl of the same size the number of paid hands required by the as a cutter can be handled by a smaller yachts is close upon 12,000 men. These crew. Sloops have never been popular in are probably the smartest seamen to be. QUEEN MAB. England, and the few that are now sailed found sailing under the British flag; they are only craft of the smallest size. arc in fact a distinct class, and differ The capital sunk in the British pleasure materially from the ordinary fishermen fleet is estimated to amount to over and the crews who man the vessels of 146 BRITISH YACHTING. merchant service. The latter exhibit anembarrassing want of confidence in the long,low, heavily sparred yacht as she lists un-der a crowd of canvas, till the white wateris rushing two or three planks deep overher lee deck, and sending clouds of sprayfrom her weather bow, every time shemeets the broken crest of a wave, and in herhaste appears to have forgotten to curtseyto it. The merchant sailor who may havebeen shipped on an odd occasion as an extra hand on board a racing craft ex-presses his objections to yacht racing witha candor and emphasis charactistic of hisprofession. Accustomed to a large vessel,standing high out of the water, he fin
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