"SAILING
by E.F. Knight
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
The choice of a boat — Description of the various parts of a cutter.

MORE, probably, could be written on boat-sailing than on any other
sport; for this pursuit owes much of its extraordinary fascination to
the fact that its science is practically infinite; the most
experienced sailor has always something new to learn, and is ever
acquiring fresh wrinkles. Of all inanimate objects a boat is surely
the most beloved of its owner; there is something almost human in its
ways and vagaries; and whereas it is possible to conceive the
attainment of perfection in the design of the instrument employed in
any other sport, the complexity of the problem involved in producing
the ablest craft renders improvement ever possible, and the sailing of
a boat is not more fascinating than the designing of one."

SAILING
E.F. Knight
Introduction
1. Introductory
2. The Ropes
3. The Theory of Sailing
4. On Small Boats
5. The Rigs of Small Boats
6. A Cutter's Rigging
7. How to Sail a Yacht
8. Miscellaneous Hints
9. Fitting Out
10. The Economy Between Decks
11. The Laws of the Sea
12. Instruments of Navigation
13. How to Find One's Way at Sea
14. Weather Wisdom
15. Yacht Racing
16. Glossary of Nautical Terms

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