The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes (1912)
Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 38
on stays and shrouds, and no end of running rig-ging, doing the most wonderful circus stunts in the most matter-of-fact way, farup on dizzy heights. The children fairly held their breath to watch them. Out on the yards sailors were bending on the new sails, the sails Bob andBetty had seen being… … too many; it was all too confusing. Each rope, he told them, had its ownname; every sailor had to know them to be able to do his work. The riggers built trim little rope ladders from the rail to the crosstrees bylashing small ratlines to the heavy shrouds. The stays and shrouds,of course, were to…
Sailing · Seashore
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