Excerpt from On Yacht Sailing: A Simple Treatise for Beginners Upon the Art of Handling Small Yachts and Boats Here is no difficulty in the learned writing for the learned, but it is extremely difficult to com pose a work for the instruction of the ignorant. The more comprehensive and exact knowledge the writer has of his subject the more arduous is the effort to express his thoughts in such simplicity as will make it understandable to those who have little or no knowledge of the subject he treats. This is doubly so when the subject is one like sailing - an art whose language is wholly technical and almost totally divorced from the common expressions of life. It is impossible to trans late sea language into land language; nor is it possible to explain the conditions and Operations of the art with out employing sea terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.