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[[underline]] Korea [[/underline]] is now under Japan
[[underline]] Feb 27. [[/underline]] To day we are to arrive at [[underline]] Shanghai. [[/underline]] At 8:00 AM. Sea still green. At [[overwritten]] 10:00 [[/overwritten]] 9:00 A.M. yellowish muddy water everywhere. At 11:00 AM [[underline]] excellent steam pilot boat. [[/underline]] Chinese pilot comes aboard. I paid $63.00 more for additional passage to Hong Kong. Many small fishing boats carrying a [[strikethrough]] plain [[/strikethrough]] ^[[stayed]] lugsail on main mast (aft) and a small lugsail on small foremast
[[strikethrough]] [[image of fishing boat]] [[/strikethrough]]
[[image: drawing of ship with 2 sails as described above]]
Some of them carry 3 such sails Mr. [[underline]] Herbert Armstrong Poole c/o Standard Oil Co [[/underline]] Shanghai former [[underline]] President of Sanghai Yacht Club [[/underline]] tells me he has done some cruising in [[underline]] small sail Yacht in Japan Inland Sea [[/underline]] and says
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it is delightful and there is [[underline]] every possibility of reaching each night some Japanese Inn on some Island or another [[/underline]] where one can get a hot bath. There is an [[underline]] active Yacht Club at Kobe [[/underline]] Best time for cruising is from July 15 to September 30.
[[strikethrough]] I n [[/strikethrough]] Increasing number of sail-boats. 
All [[underline]] have "eyes" on the bow, [[/underline]] and the bow split or square and the poop considerable higher. Masts instead of all raking aft or forward rake in different directions. 
[[image: diagram of boat with 3 masts in different directions]] 
The topsides are rather straight or have tumble-home at the bulwark, this fits in well with their leeboards. These leeboards and general lines and appearance of the boat, together with the fact that they are either unpainted or gaily painted [[underline]] reminds me of [[strikethrough]] du [[/strikethrough]] Dutch leeboard boats [[/underline]]