This little work is written for the purpose of enabling any person after a perusal of its
pages to feel con dent of handling a boat so as to be perfectly safe and to have son e
knowledge of the rules which should govern its movements under all conditions that might
naturally arise. This sport is far less dangerous than is supposed and it may even be asserted
that no kind of amusement is safer during the summer months in these latitudes. lt is simply
wonderful what stress of wind and sea a small boat will sustain 'with pe fect safety when
properly managed.
