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Fishermen agreed that the spars of a boat which could beat Bluenose were still in a tree, that the Thebaud was handicapped mainly by her size. But since even the Thebaud is too big to be efficient for fresh fishing, fishermen saw little sense in building a bigger challenger, little...
There Masefield saw her. "I have seen much beauty, but she was the most beautiful thing. She was so splendid, and so distresst: she was also moving as though she were alive." In all, the Wanderer made ten long voyages, but never one without some accident. "Men fell from aloft...
Soapy combers of the Gulf Stream lunge across the Atlantic carrying with them a clutter of spars, smashed planks, crates, broken chairs, two or three stove-in lifeboats with keels to the sun.
The exploits that made him the American counterpart of Francis Drake reached their heights in the moonlight encounter between his Bon Homme Richard and the British ship-of-war Serapis; an encounter which began when the British captain, Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a...