untackling

Updated: May 14, 2025

The resolution was called, written out, and signed by every survivor, but afterward, when officers and men set themselves to the well-nigh impossible task of untackling the ship without implements of iron, revolt appeared among the workers. Again Waxel avoided mutiny. A meeting was called, another vote taken, the recalcitrants shamed down. The crew lacked more than tools.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

Jimmy joined the gang and worked like a Trojan, helping wherever a man was needed, shifting ballast, untackling the boats, handling the pump. It was at the pump that he found himself, some time during the night, working endlessly, it seemed. Not once had he lost sight of the real purpose of his presence on the yacht.

Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger - The Stolen Singer