The Motor Boat Club off Long Island; or, A Daring Marine Game at Racing Speed

Excerpt from The Motor Boat Club Off Long Island: Or a Daring Marine Game at Racing SpeedAt the same time Halstead threw his own wheel over to go to port of the bell-ringing stranger.It was a fog that seemed to grow denser with every foot of headway. The water at the hull alongside was barely visible.Then through the mist ahead shot the tip of a bowsprit. Despite the signals, or through mis understanding them, the sailing vessel was keep ing to her course. She was due either to ram the Rocket, or to be rammed by that agile lit tle cruising craft.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.