Yachting: Volume 26, Issue 3 – September 1919

SEPTEMBER YACHTING Copyright Press Iiustrating Service OT the famous Round Pond, but its American counterpart, Conservatory Lake, in Central Park, New York. Round Pond—A Meditation The following “‘theft’’ from a recent issue of THE Lonpon TIMES 1s worth y N a spring morning the Round Pond and its surroundings would strike any one as the fatal foundering of this toy, so breathlessly carried to the Pond, so tearfully borne away as But soon the real apprenticeship begins. First the craft is tiny, a mere cockleshell, with an ill cut, flimsy mainsail, held by a tenous thread of a sheet: still, she floats, and her sail bellies in the breeze. Her coasting voyages are timorous and slow; her nose hardly wrinkles the surface of the water, and she labours sadly in one of the tricky squalls which beautiful; to one who has haunted that delicious pool for the whole of his conscious life it is a perfect gem in its emerald frame. But the lifelong joy of the Round setting. every Pond is not in its What feasts the eyes of lad of every year is the water and the boats. To have been a skipper on the Round Pond is to have entered a life-long brotherhood. make the There is no child but wishes to own something that will float, and, if possible, move, unaided on the most mysterious and delightful of all the elements. Full initiation comes slowly, by wellmarked degrees. First, the simple unrigged boat that floated enchantingly on the waters of the bath; then perhaps the paper boat sent out on a_ perilous Pond a young salts. The terror to all successor marks the process from able seaman to skipper. She is larger, more seaworthy, and fully cutter-rigged, and her owner, now trusted with his own guidance as well as some with that of his ship, spends with her unforgettable days that are all too short for the romance they hold. He becomes an expert in the trade routes of the Pond, gauging to a nicety the right port from which to launch for the foolish grown-up, usually a grand mother who has no sealore, buys longest possible voyage, provided one of those annoying flukes does out of the goodness of her heart not some gimcrack thing with a ridiculously shallow draught and a crowd of sails that will not move ignominiously voyage, from returns; next, which it imevitably, never —a craft that anybody could see was not seaworthy and doomed to capsize at the first breath of the wind. in after Few disappointments life are so poignant blow up to drive into the vessel the very haven from which she started Finally, with luck, the last and finest of the fleet is acquired, the ship of worth and svbstance, cunningly fitted with a swing rudder, with trim lines and a racer’s bows, a well-caulked deck, of re pro luction and a main sheet neatly adju able with tiny guys. It is 1 ship of one’s boyish one’s more dreams elderly memorie: How proudly she sailed, | in t gracefully she heeled over wind! With a fair wind on t beam she moved like a fai curving the water with her bow and leaving a prodigious wal [It was impossible to say fro1 what aspect she looked fine whether it was from her stern < she serenely made off on a ne tack, or whether it was from e1 on, as she made for short jib and foresail showing like curved, threads so prettily tv | trim and taut, holding her he well up into the wind T here we;re bad da\ Sas well ; good for the master marine: Collisions, if Tare were alw: me ssible: and collision might m that neither was recoverable v the pole of the kit out Then there were keeper ous at idents to be avoid shore, such as the dropping of was a bitter * he mevi gallant shi and destruction of the day wher happened, for it day’s sailing wasted while Le: ves sel went to dock calms were to be feared al t! especially towards evening, gathering dusk, the last mint mean Continued on page 124 a WV 1919 YACHTING SEPTEMBER, 19: The Round Pond (Continued from page 04) before closing, the despairing farewell to the beloved craft inthe doldrums in the very middle of the pond. 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