veshengro
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Raining and blowing hard outside, all Miss Claudia's fault I believe, so I'm having a book shelf sort out..
' Cruising hints ' by Francis B Cooke, published 1928. Inside the front cover in ink, Property of N.C.Wilmot RN. and a pencilled price 3/6d which was from 1961 when I bought the book.
Right forward in the eyes of the yacht a good size locker or shelf can be fitted to hold lamps and oil cans..
A gimballed Candlestick affixed to the forward side of the mast or any convenient place will supply the occupant of the forward Cot Berth with sufficient light...
Even the smallest cruising yacht is nowadays considered incompletely equipped if she is not fitted with an auxiliary motor and it cannot be denied that a motor is often a great convenience.
A chapter on ' Headquarters'
Maldon, Burnham etc he had covered in detail and remarked...' conveniently within reach of the Railway or Motorist '
He mentioned Pin Mill with the advice.. ' The best berth for a yacht is above the Causeway as the Barges are in the habit of bringing up below the Causeway.'
...We are now getting rather far from London and ports further North on the Eat Coast cannot be considered suitable for Metropolitan yachtsmen. As however, a few yachts are stationed in such rivers as the Deben and Alde it may not be out of place to make a few remarks about such places.
A different world
' Cruising hints ' by Francis B Cooke, published 1928. Inside the front cover in ink, Property of N.C.Wilmot RN. and a pencilled price 3/6d which was from 1961 when I bought the book.
Right forward in the eyes of the yacht a good size locker or shelf can be fitted to hold lamps and oil cans..
A gimballed Candlestick affixed to the forward side of the mast or any convenient place will supply the occupant of the forward Cot Berth with sufficient light...
Even the smallest cruising yacht is nowadays considered incompletely equipped if she is not fitted with an auxiliary motor and it cannot be denied that a motor is often a great convenience.
A chapter on ' Headquarters'
Maldon, Burnham etc he had covered in detail and remarked...' conveniently within reach of the Railway or Motorist '
He mentioned Pin Mill with the advice.. ' The best berth for a yacht is above the Causeway as the Barges are in the habit of bringing up below the Causeway.'
...We are now getting rather far from London and ports further North on the Eat Coast cannot be considered suitable for Metropolitan yachtsmen. As however, a few yachts are stationed in such rivers as the Deben and Alde it may not be out of place to make a few remarks about such places.
A different world