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THE BOOK OF
THE SAILBOAT

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By A. Hyatt Verrill

The Real Story of the Whaler

The Book of the Sailboat

The Book of the Motor Boat

Isles of Spice and Palm

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Publishers New York

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Fore-and-aft Sails and Rigs

1Leg-o-mutton sail. 2Gunter sail. 3Lateen sail. 4Sprit sail. 5Lug sail. 6Boom-and-gaff sail. 7Cat rig. 8Jib-and-mainsail rig. 9Sloop rig. 10Yawl rig (Polemast). 11Schooner rig (Polemast).

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THE BOOK OF

THE SAILBOAT

HOW TO RIG, SAIL AND

HANDLE SMALL BOATS

BY

A. HYATT VERRILL

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF THE MOTOR BOAT

ISLES OF SPICE AND PALM, THE REAL

STORY OF THE WHALER

ILLUSTRATED

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORK LONDON

1916

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Copyright, 1916, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER	PAGE
I.	A Short History of Boats
The first boat. Rafts and canoes. Catamarans. Early forms of boats. Coracles and goofahs. The evolution of the sailboat. Types of modern boats. Schooners, sloops, ketches, catboats, round- and flat-bottomed boats.
II.	What Boat to Use
Speed, stability and seaworthiness. Boats for various uses. Whale-boats, surf-boats, life-boats, fishing boats, oyster-boats, pilot-boats, spongers, skiffs, dories, skip-jacks, etc.
III.	Parts of Boats
Various parts of a boats hull. Masts and spars. Blocks and tackle. Anchors and cables. Deck fittings. Cleats, chocks. Rudders, tillers, wheels, etc. Keels and centerboards. Leeboards. Ropes and standing rigging. What each is for.
IV.	Various Rigs
Square-rigged vessels. Ships, barks, barkentines, brigs, brigantines, topsail-schooners, schooners. Ketch and yawl rigs. Sloop rigs. Catboats. Types of fore and aft sails. Lateen, lug, gunter, sprit, leg-o-mutton and other sails. What rig to use.
V.	How to Sail a Small Boat
First steps in learning to sail. Handling and sailing small boats. Getting under way. Sailing on the wind, tacking. Coming about. Sailing before the wind. Wearing ship. Jibing. Luffing. Reefing. Coming to a landing. Coming to anchor.
VI.	The Care of Boats
Equipment. Anchors and safety appliances. Moorings. Sea anchors. Stowing sail. Care of boats and sails. Caulking, painting, etc.
VII.	Marlinspike Seamanship
Ropes and their parts. Simple and useful knots. Splices. Bends and hitches. Ornamental knots.
VIII.	Simple Navigation
Rules of the road at sea. Lights, beacons and signals. Buoys and lighthouses. Channels. Use of compass. Charts and their use. Dead reckoning. Logs. Sounding. Landmarks. Bearings. Currents and tides. Fogs. Stars. Winds and waves. Storms. Sailing in heavy weather. What to do in case of accident.
IX.	Building Small Boats
The simplest boat to build. How to build a round-bottomed boat. Building from patterns.
X.	What not to Do
Nautical Terms and Their Meanings

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Fore-and-aft sails and rigs

Primitive boats

Types of small boats adapted to special uses

Types of bows and sterns

Keels, centerboards, leeboards and rudders

Boat fittings and parts of boats

Running rigging of fore-and-aft rig

Standing rigging, masts, etc.

Various rigs

Parts of rails, spars, etc., of fore-and-aft rig

Ketch rig. Cat yawl rig

Sails of square-rigged vessels

Hull, spars and rigging of a ship

Effect of wind on boats of various forms

Sailing

Reefing a sail

Caulking tools

Anchors

Useful knots and splices

Ornamental knots

Ropework

Rules of the road and buoys

Harbor chart showing lights, buoys, channels, soundings, bearings, bottom, etc.

Use of compass in boat

Compasses

Effect of waves on stability

Building a flat-bottomed boat

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THE BOOK OF

THE SAILBOAT

CHAPTER I
A SHORT HISTORY OF BOATS

No one knows who first invented boats. Probably they were used by primitive man long before he discovered how to use bows and arrows or had even learned to chip stones into simple tools and weapons. But those early boats were not boats as we know them today, for it has taken untold centuries for mankind to improve and develop boats to their present state of perfection. It was a natural and easy matter for a savage to straddle a floating log and, thus supported, cross some pond or stream, and when some member of the tribe discovered that two logs lashed together were more comfortable and less likely to roll over and dump their passengers into the water than a single log, he no doubt felt as if he had made a marvelous invention and was probably looked upon as a prehistoric Fulton by his fellowmen.

Later on some man found that a hollowed log was more buoyant and stable than an ordinary tree trunk and from this crude beginning rude dugout canoes were developed. Even today many races have never progressed beyond the hollowed-log state of boat-building and dugouts, forty or fifty feet in length and capable of carrying great weights, are in daily use in many lands. Some of these are very crude, heavy craft, while others are beautifully made, are light in weight and are very speedy and seaworthy.

Primitive Boats

1Dugout made from a log. 2Birch bark canoe. 3Eskimo kyak made of skins. 4Catamaran. 5Turkish goofah. 6East Indian balsa. 7Malay proa.

Quite a different type of savage craft were the canoes of bark or skins. These may have been evolved from dugouts but it is more likely that accident or chance led to their discovery. A piece of floating bark bearing some wild animal or bird may have pointed the way toward the graceful birchbark canoes of the American Indians, while a stiff piece of dried hide may have given the first hint of a kyak to the Eskimos.

However, it is useless to speculate upon the incidents that led our primitive and savage ancestors along the path to the shipyard for such matters are shrouded in the impenetrable mists of the dim and distant past. We know, however, that nearly every race possessed boats of one kind or another as long ago as there was any history and we know that the boats used thousands of years ago varied as greatly in construction, form, materials and other details as boats of today.

Strangely enough, many of the most primitive forms of boats are still in daily use. I have already mentioned dugouts, but birchbark canoes and kyaks are also used at the present time as widely as ever. It is evident that some of these prehistoric craft had been developed to the utmost point of perfection before the advent of civilization for many of them have never been improved upon. With all our knowledge we have never found any boat so well adapted to its purpose as the red mans canoe, and while we now make them of canvas instead of bark, we follow the same models as those used by the Indians centuries ago.

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