Excerpt from Starboard and Port: The Nettie Along Shore IN a work so unpretending as this a Preface is hardly needed. My book would never have seen the light but for the kindness of friends. They list ened SO patiently to my repeated recitals of advent ure that I was tempted to seek a larger audience. I have had three objects in view in elaborating my log First, the happiness it always gives me to talk about the ocean; second, the hope of giving pleasure to others; and, third, my desire to induce yachtsmen to venture into blue water. If I fail in the last, I shall fall back cheerfully to the other two; and if the sec ond be unattainable, then the pleasure I have had in writing the book remains, and I am quite content. 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.