studding-booms

Updated: June 9, 2025

A little puff of wind on the larboard quarter, and then "larboard fore braces!" and studding-booms were rigged out, studding-sails set alow and aloft, the yards trimmed, and jibs and spanker in; when it would come as calm as a duck-pond, and the man at the wheel stand with the palm of his hand up, feeling for the wind. "Keep her off a little!"

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast