YACHTSMEN AND SAILORS.
Sir, —Whilst thoroughly agreeing that yachtsmen should have a safe and secure harbour for their yachts, yet I cannot let " Yachtsman's" epistle in Tuesday's Hui_u.r> pass without challenge. Shipmasters do not ask intending candidates for '.he sea. whether they have been yachtsmen or not. Indeed, they would i-ather not have them. The ordinary yachtsman's life does not fit a man to bo a sailor. In fact, quite the reverse. The correspondent aliso says that a yachtsman . went straight from an amateur to third niitce£ of a coasting steamer. Is our friend aware that no man can be an officer unless he has got a certificate of competency or sorvice, and for either of these four years at least of service is necessary. Let . .him ask the ordinary officer or shipmaster his opinion of yachtsmen, and J know it will be this: " They are not sailors, but they 1 hink they know it all, and they are really ' a menace to navigation through their ignorance of the rules of the road and other matters." Old Whiskers. \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17256, 4 September 1919, Page 10
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178YACHTSMEN AND SAILORS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17256, 4 September 1919, Page 10
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