There is another thing worth remembering in rounding a lee mark boat in boats or any long shallow craft, though it does not apply to yachts and deep vessels, and that is, that it is best to " round to " with small helm, and by working the sheets cleverly (after ones first), and thus come to the wind with good weigh on the boat, instead of jamming the helm hard over, stopping her weigh and coming to the wind like a log.
You have now passed the lee mark boat, and have settled yourselves down to a regular good thrash to windward, of two miles, let us say, now comes the tug of war, and if the wind is steady, and there are no flukes, or accidents, the best boat best handled will win the race.
Everybody should now sit down as low as possible in the boat, all the men should be right down in the bottom, and there should be nothing human visible above the gunwale of the boat except your own head ; remember that you don't carry your eyes in your stomach like an Octopus, and therefore there is no advantage in making a scaregull of yourself by sitting up on the weather gunwale with your cap on the back of your besides the lower you sit in the boat the better chance you have of seeing under the sails to leeward, and of looking out where you are going to. We will of course suppose that you have
trimmed your boat and her sails in accordance with what has already been said on the subject, and that you are doing your best to windward. The next thing to do if you want to win the race, (and we will imagine for the sake of argument that you do), is to look out for the boat that you consider your most dangerous adversary, go for her and get on the same .tack as she is on, and try conclusions with her at once ; you will soon see who has the best of it, and if you find that you can beat her, (ever so little) and that you don't think any of the others dangerous, then stick to her like wax, never let her get away from you, tack whenever she tacks, stick on her weather beam, and don't give her the chance of a fluke, or of benefiting by a shift of wind, which might put her to windward, and you to leeward, if you were on different tacks.