by Winthrop P. Moore
A thoroughly good and complete volume on just what the title suggests and more. Excellent coverage of maintenance and improvement of wooden sailing craft and very good cruising information. From the Preface: "Nowhere is there a sport or recreation which has the same appeal as yachting. It has been truly remarked that it is more than a sport or pastime; it is a manner of living. With the yachting movement, traditions of early America are revived, when sons followed fathers to the sea, and generations of men followed one another in knowing the sea. It is most fitting that the return movement to the sea should be in the form of a thorough acquaintance with small boats—yachts. This book has been written with the express intention of arousing more interest in small boat handling, and in the hope that it will lead to a better acquaintance with the water and good boats. Yachting should not be a selfish matter; it should be shared with others. There is no age limit, no barrier of sex and but little limitation on physical endurance. The writing at length on any subject of boating interest is a ticklish task. There are manners and ways of doing things almost without limits. The reader, therefore, is welcome to the pleasure he may find in detecting differences or errors, for the keenness of his criticism will be the measure of his interest. The inculcation of rules and precepts is unimportant, provided there is an awakening of interest in yachting as a sport and a recreation. Should this book arouse the reader to an interest, where before there was none, then I shall feel amply repaid for my pains."
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