Five-raters, the Y.R.A. rule of measurement, 355; sail-area and length, 356, 357; best boats for Channel seas, 357; 'hard-mouthed,' 358; overhang forward, 358; fiddle-head and overhang bow, 358; main design, 359; 'staying' and 'getting away,' 359; reaching courses, 359; sternpost, fin and bulb keels, 360, 361; the Herreshoff boats the 'Wenonah' and 'Wee Winn,' 360; lugsails, 360; canoe models, 361; ocean travelling, 362; general requirements in a yacht, 362; weight, 363; accommodation, 363; sail-carrying power, 363; dimensions of yacht to be supplied with sails, 364; speed, 364; question of kind of waters small yachts will race in, 365, 366; principal form in America for all yachts, 367; large displacement, 367, 368; the fin-keel, 369; suitable harbours, 369; value of a moderate draught of water, 370; beam, 370, 371; sail-area, 371; Clyde boats, 371; Solent raters, 372; Messrs. Fife and G. L. Watson's yachts, 372; J. H. Nicholson's designs, 372; the 'Natica' and 'Red Lancer,' 373; buying, 375-377; fitting out, 377-392; altering the lugsail, 384; interior accommodation, 384-392; outfit, 392-395; racing, 395-398; cruising, 399-406 Five-tonners (and five-raters) in the North, 322; yachts built under the Thames rule of measurement and the rule of the Y.R.A., 323; cost of building and keeping up, 324; classed and prizes awarded, 324; prejudice against, 325; voyage of the 'Wyvern' from Kingstown to Liverpool, 326; the 'Pearl,' 'Torment,' and 'Arrow,' 330; 'Diamond,' 331; 'Alouette,' 332, 333; 'Vril,' 334, 335; 'Camellia,' 334, 335; 'Freda,' 335-337; matches between three last-named off Holyhead Island, 337-344; cheating the tonnage rule, 344; 'Lorelei,' 344; 'Urchin,' 345; chief method employed for walking through the 'length on deck rule,' 345; 'Nora,' 346; 'Cyprus,' 346-352; 'Trident,' 352; 'Olga,' 352; 'Luath,' 353; 'Oona,' 353; 'Doris,' 354, 355; 'Jenny Wren,' 354, 355; 'Delvin,' 367; buying, 375-377; crew sufficient for, 375; cost of sails, gear, &c., 375; men and places to buy of and at, 376; fitting out, 377-392; interior accommodation, 384-392; outfit, 392-395; racing, 395-398; cruising, 399-406 Flags, 394 Flamborough Head, 31-33 Flensborg, 309 'Fleur-de-Lys' (90 tons), 113 Floating blinds, 103 'Florinda,' yawl, diagrams of lines, 97; plans, 100; midship section, 101, 134 'Flutterby' (4-rater), 230 'Flying Cloud' (75 tons), 116, 119 Forecastle pantry, the, 380 Foreign cruises in vessels of small tonnage. _See_ Fifty-tonners 'Formosa,' cutter, 83 Formosa Channel, 'Sunbeam's' performance under sail in, 26 Forwood, Sir William, 146, 168 Fowey, 403 'Freak,' cutter, 110