. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. ^ourdead reckoning. Thus equipped, the navigator mayboldly venture forth either by himselfor with a congenial companion. If hedoes not enjoy every moment of hiscruise, and gain health and strengthfrom the tonic sea breezes, he can safelyconclude that Nature never intendedhim for a sailor. In that case he shoulddispose of his craft at once and seeksuch consolation as agricultural iX. np] BEATING TO WINDWARD, HERE is an old nautical truism tothe effect that a haystack will sailwell to leeward, but that it takes acorrectly-modeled vessel t
. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. ^ourdead reckoning. Thus equipped, the navigator mayboldly venture forth either by himselfor with a congenial companion. If hedoes not enjoy every moment of hiscruise, and gain health and strengthfrom the tonic sea breezes, he can safelyconclude that Nature never intendedhim for a sailor. In that case he shoulddispose of his craft at once and seeksuch consolation as agricultural iX. np] BEATING TO WINDWARD, HERE is an old nautical truism tothe effect that a haystack will sailwell to leeward, but that it takes acorrectly-modeled vessel to beatto windward. It is easy to comprehendhow a straw hat thrown into a pond on its northerlyedge will, un-der the influ-ence of a briskbreeze fromthe north,make a fastpassage to thesoutherlyb ank . It ismore difficultto understandhow the samestraw hat, ifput into thewater at thesoutherly endof the pond,might be somanoeuvred asto make a passage to the northern ex-tremity of the sheet of water, thoughthe wind continued to pipe from thenorth. This was, no doubt, a tough nutfor the early navigators to crack, andthe problem may have taken centuriesto solve.
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