Word: bowsprit
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...cruise almost ended soon after it began. One night, about 120 miles out of Manhattan, he noticed the red port light was out, took it below to refill it. While he was down in the cabin a steamer passed so close to the Firecrest it sheared away the bowsprit, left a gaping hole. By the time Gerbault reached Bermuda (16 days out of Manhattan), the Firecrest had to be completely overhauled. From Bermuda, Gerbault headed through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. One day after he left Galapagos, a bonito, 35 lbs., tried to jump over...
...years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim in the fish cars. . . . For a time I had a West Indian goat, four dogs, a parrot and a monkey, all living in peace and harmony in the garret. ... I went to the Dime Museum so often that I could have taken...