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 CHAPTER V

OPEN SAILING-BOATS WITH BOOM-SAILS, AND HALF-DECKED BOATS

The Una rig—Balance-reefs—The sliding-gunter—The balance-lug—Main and mizzen rig—The sloop—Half-decked boats        72

CHAPTER VI

DECKED BOATS

A cutter's spars, sails, standing and running rigging—Advantages of the yawl and ketch rigs      91

CHAPTER VII

SEAMANSHIP

How to set, reef, and take in sails—Getting under weigh—Full and bye—Tacking—Running—Jibing—Heaving-to—Balance of sails—Sailing with wind abeam—In a Pampero—Coming to an anchorage and picking up moorings—The drogue      118

CHAPTER VIII

OPEN BOAT SAILING

Shifting ballast—Sailing in rough water—Management of open boats—Beaching through a surf—Hints on river sailing—Working the currents—Sailing under bridges     157

CHAPTER IX

THE CRUISING YACHT

How to ballast and fit her out—Anchors and cables—Lights—The compass—Swinging the vessel—Deviation of the compass—The equipment—Cooking stoves—Yacht's dinghy—How to tow a dinghy at sea—Collapsible boats—Sailing dinghies      175