Identifier: seashorebookbobb00smit (find matches)
Title: The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943
Subjects: Sailing Seashore
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r-failing amount of wonderful things to see and learn about. Now, said Captain Hawes one day, well go over to the wharf and see theriggers fitting up the new ship we saw launched. You may be sure the children were willing. Captain Hawes, who knew every-body and was welcome everywhere, took them on board and showed them every-thing, from the bow to the stern. And all about the ship was so neat and wellmade it was a constant marvel to the children. High up in the rigging men wereswarming, reeving on stays and shrouds, and no end of running rig-ging, doing the most wonderful circus stunts in the most matter-of-fact way, farup on dizzy heights. The children fairly held their breath to watch them. Out on the yards sailors were bending on the new sails, the sails Bob andBetty had seen being made at the sail loft. The whole work seemed to them awonderful confusion of lines and ropes and pulleys and tackle. Captain Hawestried to explain what each rope meant and how it was used. But there were
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too many; it was all too confusing. Each rope, he told them, had its ownname; every sailor had to know them to be able to do his work. The riggers built trim little rope ladders from the rail to the crosstrees bylashing small ratlines to the heavy shrouds. The stays and shrouds,of course, were to hold the great masts in place. The children wondered at it all,but did nt pretend to understand it, though Bob was especially interested, forclimbing he understood, and such climbing was far ahead of anything the big-gest boy in his school could do. They delighted in the cooks kitchen, the galley. Such a compact, neatlittle room, where the most ingenious shelves and lockers were arranged, inwhich to hold everything needed in the way of dishes and pots and pans. Thestove was chained down solidly so that no storm might upset it and cause fire,the cook explained. To Betty, the galley was the most interesting thing about the ship; itpleased her housekeeping instincts, though it did seem strange t

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