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Updated: June 13, 2025
The schooner righted slowly to an even keel. Meanwhile the junk had set its one lug-sail and its crew had run out the sweeps. Hoang took the steering sweep and worked the junk to a position right across the "Bertha's" bows, some fifty feet ahead. "They're watching us, right enough," said Wilbur. "Up your mains'l," ordered Moran. The pair set the fore and main sails with great difficulty.
Of course, when there is sport in it you set every kite you've got in your lockers and, you know, Elsa, I never took my mains'l in yet while there was one standing in the fleet, even ordinary fishing days." "I know it; you've scared me half to death a dozen times with your sail-carrying."
Weel, Sandy was forrit wi' the jib sheet; we couldna see him for the mains'l, that had just begude to draw, when a' at ance he gied a skirl. I luffed for my life, for I thocht we were over near Soa; but na, it wasna that, it was puir Sandy Gabart's deid skreigh, or near-hand, for he was deid in half an hour.
"I haven't got a thing on earth but the Charming Lass, an' this year I haven't caught enough fish to pay for my new mains'l. My credit is still good at Bill Boughton's, but that's all." "But the cottage " "That is my mother's, and they could never get that.
M-m" Johnnie was taking deep breaths now "why, then I'd have to put sail to her " "What sail?" "Why, jib, jumbo, fore and main." "And the wind blowing eighty mile an hour?" "Why, yes, if she'd stand it." "My, but she'd have to be an able vessel that all four lowers and the wind blowing eighty mile an hour. Man, but you're a dog! Suppose she couldn't stand it?" "Then I'd reef the mains'l."
The Colleen's crew had hoisted their mains'l already and there she lay swayed up and all ready, and men aloft were even then putting the seizing on. Tom O'Donnell himself was pointing it out to Sam Hollis with a good deal of glee, thinking, I suppose, to worry Hollis, who, to uphold his reputation, would have to do the same and take the chances that went with it.
"Winter time, yes." "First I'd single-reef the mains'l. Then I'd hold her up a little not too much me being skipper would be to the wheel myself and then I'd give the order, 'Dories to the rail! and then, when everything was all right when I'd be satisfied we wouldn't foul the next vessel's trawls I'd call out, 'Over with your wind'ard dory!"
He's an old sailor now, but if he lives to be a hundred and fifty he'll never be a good one. I could beat his vessel if I was on a two-by-four with a pillow-case for a mains'l. I can't understand why he has turned against me." "It isn't only he, it's " "I know it!" he burst out passionately. "It's the whole island of Grande Mignon from Freekirk Head to Southern Cross.
Pretty soon I heard the creak of the blocks an' the smash o' th' mast hoops as th' mains'l came flutterin' down then th' sound o' the cable rushin' through the hawsepipes as her hook took bottom. In the moonlight I could see Bull McGinty standin' by the port mizzen shrouds with a megaphone up to his face, and his voice comes up to me like the bugle blast of Kingdom Come. "'O, Gib! Are you there?
Clancy and three or four others finished attending to our own halyards and overhauling the gear aloft. Our mains'l was already hoisted and the other three lowers with stops loosed were all ready to hoist too. The mains'l had been left standing just as it was when the Johnnie Duncan came in that morning.
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