Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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team-ers hoarse whistle has been heard at in-tervals of half a minute growing gradu-ally nearer. Then the gun on the pilot-boat booms forth over the wild waste ofwaters every thirty seconds, until out ofthe gloom and blackness comes the re-sponding answering blast of the steam-ers whistle. But in the dark who cantell the location of either steamer or pilot-boat? That is a matter that requiresconsiderable training. There are no in-struments to determine it. It can be doneonly by the ear—the most delicate instru-ment known in the world. Several timesthe pilot has asked me: Where away isthe steamer? and I have answered inone direction only to have him assure methat it was in an entirely opposite one.Hence it is a matter that training onlycan determine. While the locating ofthe vessel needing the pilot and the sig-naling is going on, the pilot is in his cabinputting on his best bib and tucker.Coming on deck the pilot stands amid- Digitized by Google Charles H. Grant: Marine Painter. 485
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Charles H. Grant, Pinx. WILL THE ANCHOR HOLD? ships by one of the yawls, which is liftedby the men on to the rail of the schooner,right side up, ready to be thrown overinto the water at the command. Theoars are lashed in place, the painter madefast by the man on deck. At his sidestand the two men who are to accompanyhim. At a favorable moment the pilotgives the signal to the helmsman of thepilot-boat to let her come into the wind.She slews around, the taut sails slackenand shake. The next moment the sec-ond command is given: Throw herover! In she goes. Her oarsmen areready, the pilot leaps to the rail, andwhen she rises on the next wave along-side the pilot-boat, the three of themjump, the pilot in the stern, the two menat their oars. As soon as they are ready,the final command rings out: Let go!The painter is dropped and two or threevigorous strokes puts a good distancebetween the two boats. To any but an experienced and sturdy seaman the pilot-boat is a tiny cockleshell, upon that w

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