Word: deckhands
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...cannot, either in provincial Manhattan or cosmopolitan Cleveland, find accurate printed information about Great Lakes shipping, surely some ex-deckhand could be hired to fill in the apparently considerable gaps of your knowledge of the most important of all fresh water highways...
...senior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania: " Vacationing, I sailed for Frenchman's Bay, Me., on the 100-foot schooner of Frank B. Noyes, President of the Associated Press. Newspapers featured me as having shipped before the mast. Said I: 'I'm working my way as a deckhand, trimming sails and taking my turn at the wheel like an old hand. That's my idea of a vacation...