| | |{ Soper }| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | S. | Wee Winn |{Miss W. Sutton }|0.46| 178 | 15.61| 3.78| 4.53| 23.92| 4.8 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 8 | 3 | 1892 | | | |{ Herreshoff }| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |L.S.| Lilliput |{The late Mr. S. Watson }|0.5 | 180 | 16.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 20.0 | 4.9 | 2.0 | 3.0 | ? | ? | 1892 | | | |{ Payne }| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |L.S.| Pique |{Miss Sutton }|0.5 | 176 | 17.0 | 3.12| 0.66| 20.78| 5.0 | 2.0 | 2.9 | ? | ? | 1892 | | | |{ Payne }| | | | | | | | | | | | | +----+-----------+---------------------------+----+-----+------+-----+-----+------+-----+-----+------+------+-------+------+ CHAPTER X FITTING OUT A FIFTY-TONNER TO GO FOREIGN BY E. F. KNIGHT There is no reason why ocean cruising should be confined to those who are fortunate enough to possess big steam yachts, or schooners of considerable tonnage. A good 50-tonner, or even a smaller craft, is probably as safe under any circumstances as the larger vessel; she can go where the latter cannot, and in many ways gives her owner better sport. When a man really fond of the sea--and he must be so to undertake the task--sets to work to fit out a 50-tonner for a lengthy voyage, to the South Atlantic for example, his method must necessarily be somewhat different from that of the owner of the large yacht. He has to rely a good deal on his own wits, for much of the work of preparation is quite out of the line of his shipwright and of the ordinary nautical tradesmen with whom he has to deal. He is not likely to employ one of the regular ocean-going skippers, who would of course know exactly what was required, and the yachtsman making ready for his first expedition of this nature is sure to do some things wrong; but he will gradually pick up many wrinkles to help him on another occasion.