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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE BLACK CAT SLOOP

FROM THE LOG OF A SHIP'S

BOAT.

(By Geoffrey Prout.)

By dawn, I had negotiated the Northern Channel. With the Needles on my port. quarter, and all clear water, ahead, I began to hope that my five days would get us to Poole. And here the old Black Cat demonstrated to me another of her useful achievements,

The wind again came ahead, but it was light. The Cat, close-hauled, slipped along through the water in a quiet, contented manner.

I wanted breakfast, ao busied about getting the kettle on my primus stove on its swing. I left thị Cat to herealf for a while. The |

The narrative of adventures in seconds would be very wet. But she course was W. S. By the time I passage-making in yachts is always would pick up again steadily, and had got the primus nipple cleared, of interest to yachting men, no mat- to my delight the boat drew abreast the stove ilt and the kettle filled and ter what type of boat it is of St. Margaret's Bay.

on, some little time had clapsed. which makes the passages. But My doubts were at rest. Given The tiller, all this time, had been when the yacht is merely an ordin-no failure of gear or extra weight gently swaying about over the after- ary ship's boat, bullt to Board of in the wind I would get her into deck. Trade requirements, and cheaply Dover harbour.

Олсе with the kettle At one period I had a bad time. straightened up and looked into the converted to give cruising use and

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accommodation, such a narrative at A friend was sailing with me as binnacle, preparatory to bringing VICTORIA & VANCOUVER once becomea interesting to a far mate. The clew of the jib tore off, the boat on her 'course again. To and the heavy canvas failed like my surprise, she was dead on W.

wider circle of readers.

Such a boat is the Black Cat, a whip-lash. The sail, though in S. Rather intrigued, I moved sloop of 34 tons Thames measure pretty good condition and heavily about the boat, jumped, walked ment, cheaply converted from a 20 made, would have been in ribbons from side to side in the well, crawl- ft hull, writes Geoffrey Prout in very quickly. I was prompt, how-ed forward where the mate was the Nautical Magazine. After ever, and checked out mainsheet, sleeping, then came and looked at eight years of use the name of her posted the mate at the helm to let the binnacle again. Still W. 2 S.! mother ship has been discovered by the boat lie and drive, then, with

Well, this was fine! I prepared the burning off of some old paint, one arm for myself (round the RB. Vryha.

mast) and one for the ship, I man- the frying pan and bacon, which The term "cheaply converted" aged to capture the ragged clew luxury I had thought I would dis- pense with since I would have to must be emphasised, for the record of the jib. of the doings of a ship's boat hull; Fortunately, the reef-points had steer. The mate had been steering expensively converted in no way held, and the true clew of the sail, all night while I did chart work, so hints at how that boat would have rolled in the canvas, was available. I let him sleep! I had a real hearty- behaved in like conditions before I bundled the canvas together where breakfast, dividing my attention be conversion. When lead is added to the reof cringle had been, and tween the bacon, the tea, the bread Still W. 8.-- the keel, topsides raised, false seized the lot down to the true clew. and the binnacle. sterns built and so on, although The sail locked like a huge coal-ever W. S. these can never make a smart yacht sack beflying with the wind. But Chuckling over it all, I stripped Jor a ship's boat, they can, and do, still the Cat made to windward, and and had a wash down, then a shave,

REVUCED THROJGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA ILSA. VARYING destroy the character of a ship's a thankful man dropped his hook then moving about in the cabin I boat. The boat becomes a non in the harbour just off where pro-tidled up. Two or three hours were thus spent, and Bournemouth was descript, a useful one it may be, but nienade pier used to be. of no use as a proof of the passage- I was Jubilant.

I sup- But I promised growing in apparent size. making abilities of an ordinary, un- myself no Foole in five days If the pose it was rather ridiculous, but I tampered-with ship's boat.

weather did not moderate a very lolled about in studied luxury, never The Black Cat was decked, using great deal during the night. A pas- touching the swaying tiller, study- Dover Ing Brown's Tidal Streams, reading ther original gunwales as covering sage from Ramsgate to

board, so that her freeboard was (with Ramsgate so comfortably a-up sailing directions for Poole, and unaltered. The only addition to lec all the time) was one thing. The trying to get the hang of the dou her keel was a length of 4-inch by hazard of Dungeness, and the drag ble tides at Poole and about the 2-inch timber, through-bolted with round Beachy to Newhaven was an- Weight.

Rye, of course, in such All the time-I had had with stu- the main keel. the Black Cat would point exceed- weather, would be absolutely for-dlous care avoided touching the till- ingly close to the wind in smooth bidden.

er, so that I could record it all in water. She was ballasted with pig- The weather did moderate, and my log-the Cat faithfully kept the iron to the extent of about the the next day I sailed forth, making lubber's mark on W. % S., nor de- weight of six people. With this a beautiful passage of it almost to viated one tiniest faction of a quar- ballast, and her 4-inches depth of the Owners light-vessel, when after point from that.

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On this false keel other.

alse keel, she would seldom miss fresh snorter from the north-west Taking accurate bearings of Old ataya even in rough water. By drove me into Littlehampton, after Harry Rocks and Bournemouth pier, rough water is meant the type of three days and two nights of per- I saw that it would be necessary to. sen experienced southwards of the fect sailing in variable light winds, come a half-point to the southard South Foreland in a prolonged stiff The remark of an old salf that to make the Swash buoy at Poole south-westerly blow, any state of evening beside the harbour of bar. So, now applying the acid test, the tide.

Littlehampton was significant. He attempted to alter course by the was most interested in my passage, trimming of sheets only. expecially in regard to the experi once round the South Foreland..

"Huh, "ship's boat?" he said, cock

!

It was so simple that a child could do it.. I shortened in the main- sheet, inch by inch, for 6 inches.

So much was the Black Cat im- proved from her original. She drawa 2 feet 6 inches at the keel.

The rest of the conversion was hamper, not improvement-to wit, ing an experienced eye at the Cat As each bit came in, so the card the building of a coachroof cabin-as she quickly rode to her moorings moved, and when the lubber's mark top, 14 inches high above the gun- on the opposite sandshore.

was on W. by S. I pinned the sheet. wale.

"Yes, uncamouflaged," I nodded. The tiller swayed contentedly Sharp in my recollection is a "That's right," he said, approving away over the after deck, and the shor: passage from Ramsgate to ly: "Well, properly handled, a boat Cat lifted steadily on with her lap- Dover. It was a head wind, and, like that should drive through 'most pity-lip-lap-lap under the plank to be consistent, I suppose I must anything."

edges. She was now na steady on call myself some sort of a fool for I felt he was right. For I had W. by S. as she had been for all starting out on it. But I had Rama- already had more than a few years' those hours on W. 8. gate in my lee all the time, smooth experience of the Cat on various I took the tiller only when it was water past Deal right to the South types of coasts, under varying wea necessary to turn the boat up the Foreland, and an easy run back if ther conditions from Ipswich to Swash into Ponile harbour, having I failed to do any good round the, Littlehampton.

made it in my five days from Rams. South Foreland,

My' passage from Littlehampton gate, six from Southend, the point These considerations, weighed up to Poole took a day and a night. We from which I had started the cruise. with the desire to get to Poole in carried a light, fair wind through On the return trip to Southend, live days, which I did, coupled with the Loos, off Selsea: Bill, but it which I sailed single-handed, things a great desire to try, the boat in breezed up in the Spithead in the were not so rosy. In fact, they were something really nasty, prompted evening, coming off from the north not rosy at all. Everything me to go out and smell it, at all west. I had to reef-this would went well and enjoyably on the frat Thurs.. 24th Mar. events.

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