graffings

Updated: May 22, 2025

Add to all this labor the neat work upon the rigging, the knots, flemish-eyes, splices, seizings, coverings, pointings, and graffings which show a ship in crack order. The last preparation, and which looked still more like coming into port, was getting the anchors over the bows, bending the cables, rowsing the hawsers up from between decks, and overhauling the deep-sea lead-line.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast