Overhauling the Yacht—Practical Instructions for Cleaning and Painting the Craft Inside and Out, with Hints on the Care of Hull, Spars, Canvas and Running gear 88
Fitting Out for a Cruise—Hints on Equipping and Provisioning a Boat so as to be Prepared for All Emergencies—A Sailor's Solution of the Culinary Problem—Hot "Grub" in a Gale 115
Beating to Windward—The Theory and Practice of Sailing a Vessel Against the Breeze 128
Combination Rowing and Sailing Boats—The Jib and Mainsail Sprit, Leg-of-Mutton, Cat, Balance Lug and Sliding Gunter-Rigs—The Folding Centerboard 140
Rigging and Sails, with Some Impartial Remarks on the Lanyard and the Deadeye, as Opposed to the Turnbuckle—Standing and Running Gear, and the Bending and Setting of Canvas 155
Laying Up for the Winter—Practical Suggestions for Protecting a Boat and Her Gear from the Stress of Our Inclement Climate—A Plea for Trustworthy Skippers and Engineers 168
Useful Hints and Recipes, with Some Remarks on the Buying of a Binocular Marine Glass, from the "Brain-Pan" of a Practical Sailor 175
The Rule of the Road at Sea: Being a Digest of the Present International Regulations for Preventing Collisions on Oceans and in Harbors 185
The Mariner's Compass, with Remarks on Deviation, Variation, Leeway, etc. 192
Charts, with Some Hints as to Navigation by Dead-reckoning—Lead, Log, and Lookout 203
Marlinespike Seamanship: Being Practical Instructions in the Art of Making the Splices, Knots and Bends in Ordinary Use 207
Weather Wrinkles from the Scientific Point of View of Professional Meteorologists and also Jack Tar 217
Nautical Terms in Common Use, from which all Obsolete and Antiquated Terms, such as were in use aboard the Ark, have been eliminated 236
_Addenda_—Recent Changes of Sail Plan and Rigging in Modern Craft 248
Sailing Under Varying Conditions of Wind, 128
Gear for Hauling Out Loose-footed Mainsail, 166
The Sail Plan and Rig of a Modern Schooner, 249
The Sail Plan and Rig of a Modern Yawl, 251
All of us remember the old sailor's retort to the man who reproached him for soaking his clay in bad rum. "There ain't such a thing under heaven as _bad_ rum," he sagely remarked. "Of course some rum is better than another, but I have been knocking about the world for more than fifty years and never did I drink a glass of rum that deserved to be called _bad_, and I got outside of some pretty fiery tipple in my time."