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 CHAPTER X

THE ART OF COASTING

How to use charts—Sounding—Heaving the log—Tides Tides—The barometer—Getting a slant—Weather-wisdom—Storm signals—Weather forecasts      194

CHAPTER XI

DESCRIPTION OF A VOYAGE

Taking the departure by cross-bearings—Underbowing the tide—Ascertaining one's position at sea—Current sailing—Making a landfall—Employment of the ground-log—Running for shelter     222

CHAPTER XII

BOARD OF TRADE, AND OTHER REGULATIONS AFFECTING YACHTSMEN

Lights—Fog-signals—Rules of the road—Distress and pilot signals—Custom-house clearance—Ship's papers—Admiralty warrants—Owner's yachting certificate—Relations between owner and crew—Log-book—Insurance        238

CHAPTER XIII

TWO CRUISES ON LATEEN-RIGGED CRAFT

A dhow race in the Red Sea—Down the Nile cataracts      266

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