IX.
THE ETIQUETTE OF YACHTING.
WHAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE "GOOD FORM" IN CRAFT, OWNER AND CREW.
Every yachtsman should be conversant
with the etiquette of his
calling. If ignorant of the many
nice points pertaining to his own
personal behavior afloat, or of the proper
conduct of his craft at anchor or under
way, he may become the subject of a
certain amount of ridicule, which is, to
say the least, annoying in the extreme.
There are many commodores who would
rather forgive a man for breaking the
majority of the Ten Commandments between
dusk and dawn than for committing
a breach of nautical etiquette as
handed down from the days of the
fathers of the sport and added to infinitesimally
year by year.
In Great Britain yachting etiquette is modeled largely after that of the Royal Navy, and the same is true in a measure of our own code of yachting manners.
It ought to be unnecessary to urge that a yacht should always be clean and bright as a new pin; her decks white as
