Do you have a copy of Darcy Lever's "Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor?"

Bart Senior wrote:
I have it. I should pull it out and re-read it. As I recall is
was a bit dry reading.

True. I cna't say I have ever sat down and read thru it,
cover-to-cover. But I have read quite a bit of it, studied
some of the details for rigging... for example he talks
about how to rig bowlines and says that they are passing out
of style, but not why. How to mouse a keg for use as a
mooring ball, etc etc. And the maneuvers are great... for
example I believe one of your Seamanship Question series you
asked a while back was the difference between box-hauling
and club-hauling. I didn't know the answer but knew exactly
where to look it up!



.... It is not up to modern standards on
illustration, writing style, and terminology. I found some parts
difficult to understand because I was unfamiliar with some of
the arcane terminology.


Sure. But you can at least get the idea of what they are
trying to accomplish, since the basics of getting a sail to
stand up have not changed. And the drawings are still
interesting.

DSK