Rudder, Volume 32Thomas Fleming Day Fawcett Publications, 1916 |
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Addison G Ahmeek anchor applying to Hollis auxiliary Barnegat Bay beam berths Blerck Boston breadth built buoys Burgess Yacht Agency cabin carbureter catboat championship Class Coast cockpit Commodore course craft crank cruising cylinder deck Delaware River draught engine equipped express cruiser finish fishing flag fleet forward fuel galley gasolene Gravesend Bay Hollis Burgess Yacht hull inches keel Larchmont Launch Lawley length light lockers Long Island Sound magneto Manhasset Marblehead marine miles an hour miles per hour Miss Minneapolis Motor Boat Nahma nautical miles naval Ocean City one-design owners piston planking port power boats power yacht propeller rabbet race regatta River RUDDER runabout sailed schooner screw season shaft ship side six-cylinder Skipper sloop speed sport started stateroom Sterling tanks toilet valve vessel water-line wind winner Yacht Club yachtsmen yawl York Y. C.
Popular passages
Page 293 - Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by!
Page 293 - HATS off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by...
Page 293 - Sea fights and land fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the State ; Weary marches and sinking ships ; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty, and years of peace, March of a strong land's swift increase ; Equal justice, right, and law, Stately honor and reverend awe ; Sign of a Nation, great and strong, To ward her people from foreign wrong ; Pride, and glory, and honor, all Live in the colors to stand or fall.
Page 224 - All buoys along the coast, or in bays, harbors, sounds, or channels, shall be colored and numbered, so that passing up the coast or sound, or entering the bay, harbor, or channel, red buoys with even numbers shall be passed on the starboard hand, black buoys with uneven numbers on the port hand, and buoys with red and black stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel-ways shall be colored with alternate white and black perpendicular stripes.
Page 272 - That so much as may be necessary of this and any other appropriations made herein or hereafter for specific portions of New York Harbor and its immediate tributaries may be allotted by the Secretary of War for the maintenance of these waterways by the collection and removal of drift.
Page 225 - ... buoys on the port or left-hand side. The numbers and letters placed on all buoys are formed by standard stencils, to insure uniformity, and the largest size practicable is used, so that these may show as prominently as possible. White characters are painted on black buoys and black characters on red buoys. Buoys are anchored in their positions by various types of moorings, depending on the character of the bottom . and the size and importance of the buoy. They are placed in position and cared...
Page 431 - The same ceremonies are observed at sunset, the ensign being started from the peak or truck at the beginning of the National Anthem and the lowering so regulated as to be completed at the last note. In the absence of a band "Retreat
Page 305 - ... mushroom trumpet has been found to give good results where an even distribution of the sound is desired at all points of the compass, as, for instance, in the case of light vessels. In other cases, particularly light stations marking important places, horizontal doublemouth horns have been found to give satisfactory results by effecting a wider and more even distribution of the sound. Practically all fog signals as now installed are provided with a governing device for timing the strokes or blasts;...
Page 266 - There was a young lady of Niger, Who smiled as she rode on a tiger ; They came back from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Page 180 - Archimedian screw can start the same weight into such motion in the same time. I several times repeated these experiments upon what may be called the initial velocity had by the first blast, or jet, or shot. The leaky and sinking condition of the old boat, broken and out of shape by liftings by a crane, prevented my continuing the course of experiments so far as to be able to take her rate, consumption of fuel, and the line-haulage power necessary for the same rate.