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Cooke and Miss Thorn. "The Maria has vindicated her sex," remarked Farrar. We laughed. "Why don't you sail, Mr. Farrar?" asked Mrs. Cooke. "He can't do any harm in this breeze," Farrar replied; "it isn't strong enough to get anywhere with." He was right. The boom gybed twenty times that morning, and the Celebrity offered an equal number of apologies. Mr.
Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different, and none satisfactory; and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it overboard.
Donald kept her moving very lively, and when she had made her two tacks, she had weathered the buoy, and, rounding it, she gybed so near the ledge that the commodore could not have crawled in between him and the buoy if he had been near enough to do so. Hauling up the centre-board, and letting off the sheets, the Sea Foam went for a time before the wind.
And th' end was the larboard halyards broke, an' the mare gybed, an' to Torrington I went before the wind, wi' an unseemly bloody nose. 'Lud! cries the widow, ''tis the wrong man 'pon the right horse! 'Pardon, mistress, says I, 'the man is well enow, but 'pon the wrong horse, for sure."
Soon after we gybed, and for two or three hours knocked about in the most unpleasant manner. At daybreak we made the island of Pulu Lapata, or Shoe Island, situated on the coast of Cochin China, looking snowy white in the early morning light. The day was certainly warm, though we were gliding on steadily and pleasantly before the north-east monsoon. Wednesday, March 14th.
By some mistaken handling of her helm she had lost her proper direction, and to her amazement Bessie saw the boom come over sharply. She saw it, too, strike Gladys on the head and the next moment the Defiance gybed helplessly, while Gladys was swept overboard. Bessie did not hesitate a moment.
Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different and none satisfactory; and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it overboard.
Cooke and Miss Thorn. "The Maria has vindicated her sex," remarked Farrar. We laughed. "Why don't you sail, Mr. Farrar?" asked Mrs. Cooke. "He can't do any harm in this breeze," Farrar replied; "it isn't strong enough to get anywhere with." He was right. The boom gybed twenty times that morning, and the Celebrity offered an equal number of apologies. Mr.
Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the "Starlight" lay on the starboard tack, head down and filling rapidly. "Hurry like hell!" shouted the captain. Into No. 1, with the boatswain in charge and four seamen, went Olive and her husband and the cook; and into No. 2 crowded the carpenter, the two stewards, and the rest of the crew.
It then broke, the sea became smooth as before, and the messenger of heaven flew away upon the wings of the wind, to dispense its burden over the parched earth in refreshing and fertilising showers. While I was standing at the taffrail in admiration of this wonderful resource of nature, the main boom gybed and struck me with such force, that I was thrown into the sea.
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