id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39805 Frazar, Douglas Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise .txt text/plain 30918 1707 86 As a rule, sailing-boats and small yachts are "trimmed by the stern;" useful when the yacht is likely to lie at anchor in a sea-way for a long When every thing is ready, bring the yacht to the wind, and let the sails shake in the wind's eye; and, so soon as she gets stem-way, let the yacht has come head to wind, and commenced to get stern-way, it yacht that is well balanced in sails and ballast will, on a wind, TO KNOW WHEN THE YACHT IS AS NEAR THE WIND AS SHE WILL SAIL the helm, and keep the yacht in that position which is called sailing quarter, the port jib-sheets trimmed down, and the yacht close-hauled to Bring the yacht close to the wind, and haul the main-sheet flat aft, and direction in which one's own yacht is sailing, or, if she be at anchor, ./cache/39805.txt ./txt/39805.txt