Excerpt from Romance in a Yacht The following Yachting Tale was written within sight and sound of the ocean by one to whom yachting has been a favourite pastime from boyhood. About a dozen years ago he owned a schooner yacht of forty tons, and therefore rather larger than the fictitious bagatelle; and he has now a schooner yacht rather smaller. In these two vessels he has visited at different times most of the places alluded to in the tale. He must be permitted to mention these facts, and to ask the reader to accept them as proof of the general truthfulness of the descriptive matter, and of the interest which he. 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.