ADVICE TO YACHTSMEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 24, 11 June 1892, Page 595

ADVICE TO YACHTSMEN.

As the yachting season is about over, and many beginners will be in the field—or water—next season, we offer the following points for their instruction : Never weigh the anchor with grocer’s scales. Always use hay-scales. The anchor will fit them better.

Never shorten sail with a cross cut saw. It is better to file it down with a metal rasp. Never reef the mainsail on a coral reef. It is cheaper to use common rock, and you don’t have to go so far after it. Never take the sun in the day time. Always take it at night. You’re sure to get caught at it in the day-time.

Never let go the jib-sheets. If you do, how do you know you’ll ever get them back again ? Never go to starboard, if you can help it. Stick to port. It costs more than beer, but it’s a high toned sort of drink.

Never keep her full. She might be arrested and sent up for six months.

Never pipe all hands on deck. Take them ashore in NewJersey, where the smell of the pipes can spread abroad among the mosquitoes. Never wear ship on Sunday. Ship is good enough wear for week-days ; but you ought to be willing to put on a boiled shirt on Sunday. Never blow out the deadlights. Always turn them down low and then put.the extinguisher over them. Never navigate on a rhumb line. You know why.