It holds you
steady and prevents your turning turtle."
"I've put side fin-keels to correct that," Tom explained.
But still his father was not satisfied.
"I'd rather you had kept the gyroscope," he said, and the time
was to come when Tom Swift wished that himself.
But it was too late to make the change now, and so, with more
than usual confidence in his own designing abilities, the next
day the young inventor and his friends went aboard the M. N. 1
for the trial trip.
"You don't easily get seasick, do you?" Tom asked Mr. Hardley,
as they descended the hatchway into the interior of the craft.
"No, I'm considered a good sailor."
"Well, you'll need to be," went on Tom, with a smile. "Not that
we are likely to strike any rough water now, though the reports
say a stiff breeze is blowing in the bay. But when we once start
for the West Indies you are likely to experience a new sensation.
I've known sailors who never had any qualms, even in terrible
storms, to get ill in a submarine when she went through only a
small blow. The motion is different from that on a surface boat.
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