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Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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so longon paper, may, with a well-trained crew, be accomplishedalmost in the time it takes to read this. Shaking out a reefis a very easy matter, and will need no mention. The wholeaim in the training of a racing crew may be summed up asfollows: Every man to know his part and do it when re-quired. The first thing after explaining clearly to each manhis particular station is to get the crew accustomed to theboat. A good way to do this is to take a spin at every op-portunity with them over the course, making a careful noteyourself of the bearings of the different marks by objects onshore, so that you will not lose valuable time in the race infinding them. Do not allow any lagging in these spins, forit is liable to lead to a blunder in the race, but maintain thesame discipline as you would at that time. At the Start The hour of the race is at hand. Your crew is aboard,and after a careful examination of the running rigging,blocks, mast-hoops, sail and its lacings, you set out for the 194
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BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS starting-point. Arriving there, procure your racing num-ber, and after fastening it upon the sail, take your boatout and cruise around in the vicinity of the starting-line,using this opportunity to practise your crew in tacking,jibing, and other evolutions likely to be encountered dur-ing a race. Upon hearing the preparatory gun, it is bestto get near the line. If you feel confident that you haveyour boat well in hand, you might manoeuver for a flyingstart, but if you are a little uncertain, it is best to secure agood position, and let your sail flap in the wind close asthe boat lies stationary close to the line. If the first leg is close-hauled or a thrash to windward,it is advantageous to get away as near the front as pos-sible, as the boats slower in starting usually get off in abunch and cut up each others wind. If the start is off thewind this is not so important. A flying start is very de-sirable, but it requires careful calculation and handling tobring you

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