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Life in the Mercantile Marine

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Fine Weather?Hawse-pipe Officers?The Key of the Keelson?Sailors' Play-time?Trade-winds and Sea Farmers. The atmosphere grew warmer every day, and with finer weather the royal and sky-sail yards were ousted from where they had been lying so long idle and sent aloft. As we ran into flying-fish weather after our long delay in the inhospitable latitudes below, it acted like a tonic on the crew, andmade them to all appearance quite different men from what they had been a week or two before. More cheerful and better spirits were donned with their lighter garments, besides, now we were once clear of the dreaded Horn and steering to the north, wasn't her head pointing for home ? In the mind of some people not conversant with the duties of a seaman, with the exception of making and taking in sail and pulling on a rope occasionally, is associated the mistaken idea that, when none of these actually necessary things are going on, all he has to do is to sit down and let the wind blow him and the ship along. Now a ship is an institution where lazing forms no part of the programme. From daylight to dark there is always something to be done, and the officer who couldn't find work enough to keep Jack employed all day and every day, from the time a ship leaves port until she returns, would be looked down upon by the skipper, and even by Jack himself, as not worth his salt. Some officers run this thing to a fine art, and are past masters in the operation known to sailors as working up. Even at night an officer of this sort gives his watch no rest, and is open to the soft impeachment of slacking away gear with his own hand just for the pleasure of seeing them haul it tight again. Ask him why he does this sort of thing, he will probably answer: Just to keep the devil out...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217962827
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217962823
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr

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