by Captain A.J. Kenealy
We can't do much better than to quote from Captain Kenealy's preface for this fine little book. "Ever since I was high enough to look over the gunwale of a skiff I have been a devoted lover of the water. My first experience as a navigator was as the bold skipper of a raft consisting of three timbers lashed together, more or less securely, with a shett fresh from the linen chest ingeniously spread as a sail. No doubt I felt as happy as the primeval savage with a hollow tree for a ship and a skin of some wild beast extended to catch the favoring breeze. Since that eventful period I have had not a little experience with boats, their rigging, their equipment and their sailing. If any of this knowledge can be of practical use to the amateur boat sailer oryachtsman, the object of this work will have been achieved and the desire of the author gratified. The circumstance that the little book has reached its third edition, leads me to believe that my wish has not been in vain. I have revised all the chapters and added others so as to bring the book down-to-date. May 1898. A.J. Kenealy."
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