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Updated: June 16, 2025
'Oh, I remember; there was a heavy blow a devil of a heavy blow. I thought of you that day. How did you manage? 'Oh, it was a fair wind; it wasn't far, you see. 'Grosse Gott! In that. He nodded towards the window whence the Dulcibella's taper mast could be seen pointing demurely heavenwards. 'She's a splendid sea-boat, said Davies, indignantly.
I took careful stock of it all, recording the nature and dimensions of each piece of scantling and plank, and then, providing myself with paper, pencil, and scale, I set to work to scheme out a craft that should be easy to build, fast, stiff and weatherly under canvas, a fairly good sea-boat, and of light draught.
"Well," exclaimed Bob, as we lost sight of her in the driving scud, "she's a pretty sea-boat, is yon brig; but I'm blest if the little Lily don't beat her even at that game. What say you, Harry; ain't she proving true the very words I spoke that night when we first began to talk about this here v'yage?"
One of the men affected to gaze at the money with longing eyes, while he asked, as if weighing the terms of the engagement: "Whether the Alacrity was called a good sea-boat, and was thought to give a comfortable berth to her crew?" "Comfortable!" echoed Borroughcliffe; "for that matter, she is called the bravest cutter in the navy.
We increased our stock considerably in these two years, having taken 60,000 pieces of gold in one vessel, and 100,000 in another; and being thus first grown rich, we resolved to be strong, too, for we had taken a brigantine, an excellent sea-boat, able to carry twelve guns, and a large Spanish frigate-built ship, which afterwards, by the help of good carpenters, we fitted up to carry twenty-eight guns.
"Waal, about this schooner of yours, is she a pretty sea-boat?" "She is as comfortable a vessel as I would ever wish to have under my feet," answered Lance with just a slight touch of enthusiasm. "She will face any weather a frigate would dare to look at; and in a gale of wind, such as once caught us in the Bay of Biscay, is a great deal drier and more comfortable than many frigates would be."
The kris is the Malay's national weapon that everyone wears. Why, Nat, it is not so very long since every English gentleman wore a sword, and we were not considered savages." We had rather a long and tiresome voyage, for the prahu, though light and large, did not prove a very good sea-boat.
Good sea-boat though he knows her to be, he knows also that a crisis is near. There is but time for him to utter a warning shout ere the first roller comes surging upon them. By a lucky chance the barque, having good steerage-way, meets and rises over it unharmed. But her way being now checked, the second roller deadens it completely, and she is thrown off the wind.
Her principal defect is being too sharp in the floor, which, in case of taking the ground, greatly increases the risk; but I comfort myself with the reflection that a knowledge of this will lead to redoubled precaution to prevent such a disaster. She is withal a good sea-boat, and as well calculated for the service as could be desired.
But, even before our arrival at Jamaica, I had made the unwelcome discovery that the Hermione was by no means likely to prove a comfortable ship. The vessel herself there was no fault whatever to find with; she was a noble frigate of thirty-two guns, very fast, and a splendid sea-boat. But the skipper Captain Pigot was a regular tartar.
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