rigging-lofts

Updated: October 10, 2025

We looked at ropewalks, rigging-lofts, ships in the stocks; and saw the sailors of the station laughing and sporting with great mirth and cheerfulness, which the Commodore said was much increased at sea. We returned to the wharf at Boston in the cutter's boat.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1