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100 1 _aKenealy, A. J.
_q(Ahmed John),
_d1854-1908?
245 1 0 _aYachting wrinkles
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOuting library of sport
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-28
508 _aRichard Tonsing, Chris Curnow, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Yachting wrinkles: A practical and historical handbook of valuable…." by Captain A. J. Kenealy is a practical and historical handbook written in the late 19th century. It offers accessible, experience-based guidance on yacht racing and cruising, blending history, design advice, seamanship, rules, etiquette, insurance, and costs for the competitive and recreational yachtsman. The focus is on how to choose, build, rig, and race yachts effectively, illustrated with anecdotes, diagrams, and examples from notable boats. The opening of the handbook sets a conversational, sea-wise tone with a preface that promises practical “wrinkles” from long experience, followed by a contents map of topics from racing history to costs. It then surveys yachting from myth and antiquity through Dutch and British beginnings to American club culture, praising the sport’s clean reputation, character-building value, and naval usefulness, with lively asides (Carlyle’s cutter trip, the New York Yacht Club’s rise, and the America/Corinthian influence). Next, it turns practical: how to build or buy, materials and methods (wood, steel, bronze, aluminum), lessons from high-profile racers (Vigilant, Defender) and corrosion, why double-skin construction lasts, sample specifications (the schooner Uncas), contract tips, and even a don’t-launch-on-Friday superstition. It begins classifying types—keel, centerboard, and fin—through “epoch-making” boats, weighs safety critiques against real-world results, includes a bracing storm-run proving a centerboard sloop’s mettle, and closes with the enduring appeal of catboats, noting successful examples. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Outing Publishing Co., 1899
653 _aYachting
653 _aYacht racing
830 0 _aOuting library of sport
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76942
999 _c117667
_d117667