45-foot

Updated: July 11, 2025

The spray began to fly over our bows as we nosed into the glassy rollers, one of which, on the starboard side, admonished us, by half swallowing us, that only the mighty-limbed immortals might dance with safety on the bar that night, and that it were wise for even 45-foot yawls to hug the land till daylight.

Richard Le Gallienne - Pieces of Eight : Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903