United States or Moldova ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This weakened us so that we could not well manage more than one topsail at a time, in such weather as this, and, of course, our labor was doubled. From the main topsail yard, we went upon the main yard, and took a reef in the mainsail. No sooner had we got on deck, than "Lay aloft there, mizen-top-men, and close-reef the mizen topsail!"
Now the fore, main, and mizen-top-men of each watch Starboard and Larboard are at sea respectively subdivided into Quarter Watches; which regularly relieve each other in the tops to which they may belong; while, collectively, they relieve the whole Larboard Watch of top-men.
Word Of The Day