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And something usually went wrong the tackline missed out, two J's put on by mistake, or an M instead of a J. Once Mac failed to make fast the two ends, and one hoist of flags went trailing out over the beam.
Mac fumbled about and fell over himself at times before he mastered the mysteries of flag signals the knots, the halyards and the nautical language. "AJP tackline J," the Skipper would roar; and two of the signallers would fall over each other in a hurried attempt to get it all tied together.
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