eighty-five-ton

Updated: June 10, 2025

The Karluk was an eighty-five-ton schooner, Gloster Fisherman type, with a length of ninety and a beam of twenty-five feet. Her enormous stretch of canvas, spread to the limit on all possible occasions by Captain Simms, was offset by the pendulum of lead that made up her keel, and she could slide through the seas at twelve knots on her best point of sailing reaching the wind abaft her beam.

(Joseph Allan) J. Allan Dunn - A Man to His Mate