Mic wrote:

Here is a link to a free online Sailing Book Circa 1908:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb..../kenealy0.html


Examples of different chapters that include illustrations:

CHAPTER III ......16

Trial Spin in a Cat Boat -- How to Get Under Way, Beat to Windward and
Run Back with Instructions

How to Act if Caught in a Squall or Stranded on a Shoal, and How to
Avoid Collisions and Come to Anchor

CHAPTER IX ......116

Beating to Windward -- The Theory and Practice of Sailing a Vessel
Against the Breeze


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....kenealy2a.html

Halfway down the page, just under the section on how to use a sea
anchor, is a section on how to make an oil slick to protect the boat
from heavy seas!


--
Stephen

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For any proposition there is always some sufficiently narrow
interpretation of its terms, such that it turns out true, and
some sufficiently wide interpretation such that it turns out
false...concept stretching will refute *any* statement, and will
leave no true statement whatsoever.
-- Imre Lakatos