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Updated: May 1, 2025
"You bear all that in your mind, and remember that each halliard and sheet has the name of the sail to which it is attached, and you will have learnt enough to make yourself useful, and can lend a hand when the skipper calls out, 'Haul in the jib-sheet, or 'Let go the fore-halliards. Now sit yourselves down again and see what is doing.
"Let us tauten the bowsprit shrouds a bit," said Ellis. Ernest knew what that meant. The jib was hoisted and bowsed well up, then the backstays, and the topmast-stays were tautened. "Now, Hobbs, go to the helm; we'll get the foresail up." Ernest helped Ellis to hoist away on the fore-halliards; the old master overhauled the main sheet while Ellis overhauled the lee-runner and tackle.
She dared not speak loudly, but felt herself trembling with wrath. "That's not likely." He unhitched it from the fish-hook he had spliced to the end of his stick. "And after the trouble I've taken!" "I'll call your captain, and he'll make you give it up." "The old man's sleeping ashore, and won't be down till nine in the morning. I'm alone here." He stepped to the fore-halliards.
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