Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
Sailing yachts used for cruising, or as cruiser-racers.
Captain Voss’s famous drogue
Chapter VII: ‘Should you find yourself far from a port on the advance of bad weather, my advice is to get away from the land as fast as you can.’
Chapter VIII: ‘Should the wind be abaft of the beam the helm should be put up for a dangerous sea so that it is taken end-on.’ Continue reading “Cooke tackles heavy weather”
Chapter IV: ‘We will now consider the best means of getting our craft under way under various conditions’
Chapter V: ‘The skill of a helmsman is judged by his ability to get a boat to windward’[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Continue reading “Getting under way, and Seamanship under way”
Tonight we have Chapter III: in this glorious episode, our hero provides a step-by-step description of setting sail in a small cutter-rigged yacht especially for the first-time sailor. And, for the benefit of bachelor readers, along the way he explains the press studs used to do up ladies’ dresses.
Were bachelors really so different in his time?[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Continue reading “Cooke gets under way”