In Tidal Waters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In Tidal Waters Those whose ideas of yachting have been derived from lounging on the deck of a large steam-yacht at Cowes during the Regatta Week, with an obsequious steward in attendance, will probably find little to interest them in these pages, as the cruises described were for the most part carried out in what the East Coast waterman usually terms "little old tore-outs." The boats were certainly inexpensive, and in some cases not even seaworthy, but in the golden days of youth all our geese are swans, and I spent in them some of the happiest days of my life. It is not by any means the man with the longest purse who gets the most fun out of yachting, and no youngster with a fancy for the sea need be deterred from taking up the sport by any mistaken ideas as to its cost. The expense will be just what he likes to make it, for it is merely a question of cutting the coat according to the cloth. Many of these little sailing sketches and reminiscences originally appeared in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, The Yachting World, and The Yachtsman, and I am indebted to the Proprietors of those journals for kindly permitting me to reprint them in this form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.