How Not To Anchor

摘要

My first boat was a squishy 10-footer on which, with one exception, nothing worked right. The cotton sail had been blown out into a shapeless bag long before I got the boat. The centerboard trunk did what center-board trunks do best-leak uncontrollably, and the rudder was so ineffective that moving the tiller was an action taken in the hope, rather than rational expectation, of a change to the desired course.