My own copy of this book has an interesting note by one of its previous owners, a Captain G. M. Ruxton, self-described master mariner, Wellington, NZ, 1923:

"Miss Smith is a dry land sailor. So are most nautical writers."

One can almost imagine the good captain bristling as he wrote this.

And so we end our all too brief voyage through this wonderful collection.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble