The Cruising Association Year Book (The. Cruising Association, Coleman Streot,
E.C.), compiled by Mr. IL J. Hanson, will com- mand the admiration of amateur yachtsmen. Tho sailing directions for entering the chief harbours all round the coast are lucid and compact. The organization by which members of the Association may have their yachts or boats looked after by trust- worthy men at a very reasonable cost, wherever they may happen to leave them, is excellently thought out and achieved. Wo see that the Year Book is not for general circulation. But member- ship of the Association costs only 10s. Od. The chief prize given by the Association was won last year by Mr. Henry Reynolds for his cruise to Spain and back in a nine-ton yawl. It should be understood that the Association is not in any sense a club, but for its purpose it is impossible to imagine anything more helpful. It cheapens the already-cheap sport of cruising in small yachts. The Council are to bo congratulated on their policy of linking them- selves to similar associations in France and Germany. A scale of charges and a list of trustworthy employees answerable to the Association will be an enormous boon to those who "go foreign."
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