One day sailing in company with other small boats up the winding Medina, or tacking about, close-reefed, in rough water; the next day cruising in some splendid schooner away and away towards the Needles.
This type is very fast under paddle, but requires a skillful user in rough water.
Some Alaskan Eskimo thus converted kayaks into catamarans and then fitted a mast and sail, but such an arrangement was never used in rough water.
If the boys had been in a sailboat they probably would have listened to him; but the captain would sneer at that canoe, and would like as not tell them it wasn't fit to cross the bay in at any time, much less in rough water.
It was soon evident that the Bertha, take it all in all, was the best boat for working up to windward in rough water and a good breeze.
They were almost immediately in rough water, and the very first plunge of the yacht into the heavy sea sent the spray flying over them.
In nearly every case they have started in boats that are entirely unfitted for rough water, and, seemingly without any knowledge of the real danger ahead, try to follow where others, properly equipped, have gone through.
Friends strongly advised us to engage a Canadian canoe-man, or at least some one familiar with the management of boats in rough water.
Two or three miles below this I had some difficulty in a rapid, as the pin of a rowlock lifted out of the socket when in the middle of rough water.
The quarters would necessarily be somewhat cramped without a buoyant superstructure, which gives plenty of room for the crew to take exercise and secure plenty of fresh air when off duty, even in rough water.
It's fifteen miles of rough water, but think how we'll eat when we get there.
The canoeist sits on the floor-boards, I prefer this to any cushion or mat whatever; but if a mat or cushion be used, it should be firmly fixed, especially in rough water.
After numerous experiments, the following very simple plan has been devised for a waterproof apron, and its application at once removes one of the chief objections to canoes in rough water, as heretofore constructed.
In rough water I place a string across the end and round two screw nails on the deck; or an india-rubber cord run through the hemmed end, but best of all is a strip of wood bent across the deck with its ends under two screws or chocks.
When a single bladed paddle is used the apron is needed only in rough water, that is, one day in four.
Now that I thought of it in this clarifying light, there had been "dragon stuff" bobbing up about almost every stretch of rough water I had boated.
Donald Canyon was about the only rough water, and even that, I was assured, was not to be mentioned in the same breath with scores of rapids farther down the Bend.
Always when in rough water or in heavy weather keep a vang or down-haul on the peak of the gaff.
Farther on, in speaking of handling in rough water, I shall explain the advantages of freeboard.
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