Yachting wrinkles

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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A practical and historical handbook provides hands-on advice, anecdotes, diagrams, and illustrations for racing and cruising yachtsmen, surveying the sport's development and the design, construction, and selection of racing yachts. It discusses hull types and rigs, centerboard and keel options, fitting out and tuning for races, and crew duties and discipline. Detailed chapters outline race examples, rules of navigation and racing, and how measurement and tonnage regulations shaped yacht form. The book also covers yachting etiquette, insurance and legal relations, and practical cost-saving guidance, concluding with final operational and maintenance tips for owners and skippers.

PREFACE.

The kind reception given by yachtsmen generally to “Boat Sailing, Fair Weather and Foul,” has induced me to embark in a new venture. The following “Wrinkles,” gleaned from practical experience, observation and study, are printed in the hope that they may prove of interest and value to lovers of sailing craft.

I want to warn off literary critics by the frank admission that I am not worthy of their steel, being an old sailor who went to sea when he was thirteen, and spent many years afloat where books were scarce. So far as yachting critics or nautical experts are concerned, I must let my work speak for itself. If it has no other merit, it has at least been conscientiously done.

A. J. Kenealy.

New York, March, 1899.