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Today's top tip. If your brassware is very dull try a mixture of brick dust and oil then keep clean with any good metal polish.

Never attempt to put a boat about with her stern in the air because the rudder has less grip and a "sternboard" will result with its dangers

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." - Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain.

With a beam sea a boat rolls considerably and one big wave can easily convert a safe angle to a dangerous one. Merry Christmas one and all.

It is essential that a bowsprit run in easily without jamming, so the gammon iron should be made large, and the fid should be a stout one

Run-The run of a vessel is the after part of her narrowing up to the stern post. To let a halyard go "by the run" is to let it go altogether

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A lugsail is a four-sided sail which is hung from the yard. It is often used without a foresail, and as such is termed a Cat or Una rig.

When running dead before the wind, care must be taken to avoid the accidental gybe, which in heavy weather could be disastrous.

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A rough sea is met in the safest way when close-hauled, and you should luff-up to any extra dangerous sea so as to meet it nearly dead on.

A body floating in a fluid displaces a certain vol. of that fluid, and the weight of the displaced fluid is equal to the weight of that body

If a boat carrying weather helm be left to her own devices in a squall she will at once do the right thing and luff up into the wind .

"Twinkling stars" - Unusually great twinkling of the stars is indicative of increasing wind. So now you know.