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 *deck" on reaching it by touching your cap in naval style.

As soon as you get aboard pay your respects to the owner. If you don't see him on deck send your card to him immediately.

A young yachtsman, when about to embark in a boat from a yacht, should go over the side first and should take a modest seat. The owner of the yacht is last to leave and takes the post of honor at the tiller lines.

When disembarking at a landing, returning to the yacht, or going aboard another vessel, the owner leaves the boat first, the modest youngster last.

Photo by R. B. Burchard.

DEFENDER—STERN.