main-topmast-crosstrees

Updated: April 30, 2025

But he declined and forbade me going. I had no business in his cabin. "I saw that he had lost his nerve. Now, when a skipper loses his nerve, he loses his rights; so I didn't hesitate to sing out to the mate in the main-topmast-crosstrees to clear away downhaul-blocks, quarter-blocks, or anything handy and heavy, and try and drop them on the lion and the rhino, the two most dangerous of the bunch.

Morgan Robertson - The Grain Ship