YACHTING ACCIDENTS.
The recent drowning accident in the south serves me as a peg on which to hang soma advice evolved from personal experience. A yachts nAn who is a good swimmer has a better chance of saving his life than those who have not been taught—and many non-swim-mers go to sea—but when there is & tumbling sea, the water cold and the only hope of life a yacht upside down and tossing and rolling constantly, even a strong swimmer may be beaten. To carry lifebelts or buoys was not, in my yachting days, considered "correct," but a boat of mine had an endless rope looped around her, and when she capsized and remained keel uppermost it was a loop of this rope which kept me afloat until rescued. There is a better method I have seen in use in open boats. A number of ropes, each as long as the beam of the boat, and having a oork at tme end, are secured to port and starboard gunwale and coiled neatly within. In the event of a capsize these give a better hold than a j slippery wave-swept keel. DUCKED.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 6
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