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Updated: June 6, 2025
A chicken coop wallowed by as the boy struggled with the knot of the painter which held the outboard. And after the coop traveled a dead tree, its topmost branches bringing up against the plantation landing with a crack. Val waited for it to whirl on before he got on board his craft. The adventure was more serious than he had thought.
A similar device caught a similar loop at the other end. One strong pull and the dory rose out of the nest of four others that lay just aft of the mainmast. A hand swung her outboard and she was lowered away until she danced on the water.
Looking over the side, he could see the bottom clearly. They were in only two feet of water, and the outboard was stirring up mud at the stern. "No good," Scotty called. "That one doesn't go anywhere. Try upstream another six feet." Rick turned the boat, watching for the opening Scotty had spotted. He saw it a moment later. "Looks too small," he called back. "I think it opens up. Go ahead slow."
When in its place it was neatly painted, or tarred, much as one may see it in Norwegian ships at the present day. The yardarms, and possibly the chains, were at one time fitted with heavy steel sickles, projecting outboard, which were kept sharp, so that, when running alongside an enemy, they might cut her rigging to pieces. These sickles were known as sheer-hooks.
Pretty soon he had torpedo-tubes swinging inboard and outboard, and between every pair of tubes a man sitting up in an iron seat that looked like the kind that goes with a McCormick reaper, which all helped the gunner's mate to feel better.
He had waited like this before. Barby called urgently, "Rick! The pram is leaving. One man in it, and he's just starting the outboard motor!" "All right," he said swiftly. "Let us know which way he goes." In a moment Barby answered. "He's going to the pier!" "Roger. We're moving!" Surveillance with Cereal The plan of action had been set in advance.
For some time the boys walked around the vessel, noting her fine lines and examining the hull for possible defects. They found nothing that they considered worthy of repair except the hole through which their plug projected. Jack examined with minute care the outboard end of the shaft log and the propeller.
And again, if the mine-fields were placed in close proximity to their bases, it would be comparatively easy for German submersibles of the Lake type, possessing appliances to enable divers to pass outboard when the vessel is submerged, to go out and cut away the mines and thus render them ineffective. Nets are also used to hinder the outward passage of the submarine.
Billy Lathrop and Ben Stubbs hauled on a tackle attached to the engine, and thence to the end of the boom, and the heavy bit of machinery swung outboard without a hitch. It was then an easy matter to lower the motor on to its bed, which had been previously set in place.
A motorboat of some kind, but it didn't sound like a very powerful one. He lifted his head and searched for it. Scotty, too, had heard the boat. He began to tread water, lifting his mask, then rinsing it because it had fogged a little. Rick spotted the boat. It looked like a large row-boat, powered with an outboard motor, and it was headed in their direction.
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