Difficulty Of Sailing A Boat

Watched from the wharf, a sailboat léeme an easy sort of eraf t to manage. The wind appears to do everything. The casual guest of a skilled skipper likewise .a apt to think that as nis host takes ;hiugs so easy it cannot be so very difficult to handle a sailboat after all. He regards the warning of exporience as based on the jealousy of competition. Let him who thinks Baüing a science which its followers try to represent aa iiard to learn because they want to keep It to themselTes take a trick at the helm once. It looks easy to keep the boat on her conrse. Your friend who takes yon out sailing barely touches the tiller once in awhile. Some day he asks you to take tlw tiller while he goesforward. He tells you to keep that spire and that tall ehünney in line. You take the helm; you do what you think you have seen him do. The ehimney and the steeple act as if they ■were bewitched. They positively will not come into line. You observe in a knowing tone, "She doesn't seem to mind her helm." But she is minding her helm, and pretty soon you find out what jibing means. Most of the f atalities of summer sailing are due to the errors of the man who thinks sailing is easy, who is confident that he knows all about it. In reality tnany a sea captain who can handle a big Bbip without difficulty does not feel at ease in command of a sailboat. Boat sailing is a course at the Naval academy in which the cadets undergo arduous training under the most skilled