. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. unteract it is always the aim of thepractical seaman and navigator. Cap-tain Lecky, in his admirable work,*^ Wrinkles in Practical Navigation,puts the case clearly, and his adviceshould be followed whenever says : Suppose a vessel on a windheading NW by N, under short canvasand looking up within three points ofher port, which, accordingly, bears north;but, owing to its blowing hard, she ismaking 2^ points leeway. Clearly thisvessel is only making good a NW byW^^W course, which is 5)^ points fromthe direction of port. Let her speedunder these
. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. unteract it is always the aim of thepractical seaman and navigator. Cap-tain Lecky, in his admirable work,*^ Wrinkles in Practical Navigation,puts the case clearly, and his adviceshould be followed whenever says : Suppose a vessel on a windheading NW by N, under short canvasand looking up within three points ofher port, which, accordingly, bears north;but, owing to its blowing hard, she ismaking 2^ points leeway. Clearly thisvessel is only making good a NW byW^^W course, which is 5)^ points fromthe direction of port. Let her speedunder these conditions be, say, fourknots per , if the yardsare checked in apoint or so, andthe vessel bekept ofe NW byW, she will slipaway much fasterthrough the water,and probably willmake not morethan half a pointleeway. This keepsthe course madegood exactly thesame as before,with the advan-tage of increasedspeed. Therefore,if you can possibly^. ,, avoid it, do not al- Diagram No. 7. -, ^ , A Long Leg and a Short Leg. lOW yOUr VCSSCl tO. nEATING TO WINDWARD. 139 sag- to leeward by jamming her up inthe wind. Keep yonr wake right astern,unless it be found from the bearing ofthe port that the course made good isactually taking the vessel away from it,in which case it is obvious that the lessthe speed the better. This excellent counsel applies to everykind of sailing vessel, whether square-rigger or fore-and-after, whether usedfor business or pleasure. It is of no availto pinch a boat for the purpose of keep-ing her bowsprit pointed for her destina-tion, when it is obvious that she will onlyfetch a point sev-eral miles to lee-ward. Keep thesails clean full andthe boat will makebetter weather ofit, as well as great-er speed. It mayfrequently be nec-essary to luff andshake it out of herwhen struck by ahard squall, or, bythe aid of a fish-ermans luff, toclear an objectwithout tacking,but a good rule isto keep a sailingcraft movingthrough the waterand not permit herto pitch and rear _
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