PREFACE.
TO ATTEMPT anything new on the subject of sailing
seems hopeless; even in respect to boats and sailing
it must all have been said before. Three thousand
years ago Hesiod told how to keep boats and tackle
safe in the wintry season by means of a rude
breakwater, and cautioned us, when hauling up, to take
the plug out of the keel to prevent rotting; and the
yachting editors repeat the advice every year.
Assuredly the interest keeps up; carried along by
Homer, who must have been a personality, for no
syndicate could have felt and shown the sustained love
of the sea that the Odyssey reveals, it continues so
on through literature, and one finds Byron, as a
sailor, much more of a man than as a poet, and old
Fitzgerald, as a yachtsman, infinitely more
interesting than as the exponent of the tentmaker of
Naishapur.
So let us take heart and launch the little packet
on her voyage, and quickly, for the sailor is
perpetually anxious to up anchor, make sail, and be on
-- and, as the demon of unrest is just as often at his
throat to have the boom in the crotch, perhaps the
little book will have the luck to be read to the
end.
ROBERT BARRIE -- 1909 -- GEORGE BARRIE, JR.
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CORRIGENDA
BOUND to have all the fun to ourselves we declined
to have any professional proofreading, with the
natural result that many errors and numerous advanced
spellings have occurred to add to the gaiety of
[we hope] nations.
[Ed. note: I made the corrections they noted.
-- COD]
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE. vii
PROLOGUE. (R.B.) 1
EASTWARD IN MONA. (R.B.)
9
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
A CRUISE TO THE
CHESAPEAKE. (R.B.) 27
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
THE CHESAPEAKE
AGAIN. (R.B.) 43
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
HAUNTS OF THE BUGEYE.
(G.B., Jr.) 61
Reprinted from "The Rudder," New York.
TWO ON THE
CHESAPEAKE. (G.B., Jr.) 87
Reprinted from "The Yachtsman," London.
THREE MEN AND A NIGGER
IN A BIG BOAT. (R.B.) 109
Reprinted from "The Yachting & Boating Monthly,"
London.
MERLIN AND IREX.
(G.B., Jr.) 141
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
A VERY OLD
GIRL. (R.B.) 159
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
LOAFING. (G.B., Jr.)
171
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
AN APRIL DASH.
(G.B., Jr.) 203
Reprinted from "The Yachting & Boating Monthly,"
London.
OMOOS. (G.B., Jr.)
235
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
CHESAPEAKE BAY.
(G.B., Jr.) 247
Reprinted from "The Cruiser," New York.
POOR MAN'S PARADISE.
(R.B.) 267
Reprinted from "The Yachting Monthly Magazine,"
London.
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O'Donnell, editor &
general factotum.
May not be reproduced without my permission. Go scan
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