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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”]
Writing shortly after the Great War, F B Cooke has every bit of the bluff, blokey do-exactly-as-I-say-and-everything-will-be-all-right style that was popular in his era, but today seems bossy and a little odd. For Cooke the popular yachting harbours may have been full of good chaps but they were also home to waterside loafers and land … Continue reading “Speaking of waterside loafers, land sharks and small cruising yachts”