Young sailor's assistant in practical seamanship including the rules of the road; directions for resuscitating the apparently drowned, etc., etc., together with the salutes ... naval signal flags, Very's lights, and the international code of signals (1893)
Taunt, Emory H · Washington · leaf 153
e backed or given way upon. The bow oarsmen, having shoved the boat clear, turnaft, lay in their boat-hooks together, coil down the painter,if adrift, then take their seats, seize their oars, and lookingat each other, throw their blades over the bows in line withthe keel, together, and grasping the… … The first of the stroke. The starboard after oar gives the stroke, the others fol-low him. Each oar should be lifted as high as the gun-wale, and feathered by dropping the wrist until the bladeis flat, a brief pause being made when the oar is level withthe gunwale, long enough to feather the oar.…
Navigation · Signals and signaling
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