CHAPTER X
THE ART OF COASTING
How to use charts—Sounding—Heaving the log—Tides Tides—The
barometer—Getting a slant—Weather-wisdom—Storm
signals—Weather forecasts 194
CHAPTER XI
DESCRIPTION OF A VOYAGE
Taking the departure by cross-bearings—Underbowing the tide—Ascertaining
one's position at sea—Current sailing—Making
a landfall—Employment of the ground-log—Running for shelter 222
CHAPTER XII
BOARD OF TRADE, AND OTHER REGULATIONS
AFFECTING YACHTSMEN
Lights—Fog-signals—Rules of the road—Distress and pilot
signals—Custom-house clearance—Ship's papers—Admiralty
warrants—Owner's yachting certificate—Relations between
owner and crew—Log-book—Insurance 238
CHAPTER XIII
TWO CRUISES ON LATEEN-RIGGED CRAFT
A dhow race in the Red Sea—Down the Nile cataracts 266
Index 293
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