Douglas Frazar Boeken

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This book explains how to manage small boats and yachts under all conditions, with explanatory chapters on ordinary sea-manoevres, and the use of sails, helm and anchor, and advice as to what is to be done in different emergencies; supplemented by a vocabulary of nautical terms. Reprint of the famous book of 1879.