lower-mast-heads

Updated: June 5, 2025

When we got into the trades, we stripped one mast after the other, to a girt-line, overhauling everything, and actually getting new gangs of rigging up over the lower-mast-heads. We were a long time about it, but lost little or nothing in distance, as the ship was going before the wind the whole time, with everything packed on the masts that were rigged.

James Fenimore Cooper - Ned Myers: or, a Life Before the Mast