Word: riggers
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...Though I sometimes have to wait around for a ship fitter or rigger, I know that I'm there when occasion demands and when I'm welding or tacking that someone else is waiting for me to finish, since we both learned a long time ago that "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time...
RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Rigger Foreman, Sailor, Hoist Operator...
...light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...
...Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu-in a square rigger...
...bondholders. Then came rumors that Washington might act, that the Philippine Commonwealth would redeem the issue at $65. Bonds shot up to $31 in January and February as speculators bought for the rise, crashed when President Manuel Quezon denied his Government was buying them. Smelling a rigger, SEC investigated, found the flurry had cost speculators about...