the boom. The bight of the rope is then put under a cleat or chock, and the end rove through the thimble and belayed. It can be let go and cleared in a moment. Q. In a Topsail Schooner. A. You lose your bowsprit; it breaks off outside of gammoning; you are on a wind. Q. You are running in the Atlantic to the eastward, under a three-reefed mainsail, close reefed fore trysail, and double reefed stay foresail. The wind at South West, with heavy sea and rain. Your foremast carries away about six feet above the deck, taking the fore trysail and stay foresail with it. The triatic stay had broken the head of the mainmast off above the eyes of the rigging, when the foremast fell and also broke the peak halliards of the mainsail, which caused the peak of the main gaff to drop. What would you do? A. Port the helm, round to on the starboard tack, and clear away the wreck. Q. Why on the starboard tack? A. Because it would prevent gibing, and as the wind would draw round to the westward, the vessel would come up and head the sea. Q. What would you do next? A. Balance reef the mainsail, and lay to till the weather moderated, attending to the pumps during the interval. Q. How would you hoist the peak of your main gaff with a balance reef in, the masthead and peak halliards having carried away above the rigging? Hoist the peak of the gaff up with the lee boom topping lift. A. Q. The foremast being gone, she will not lay to with a balance reefed mainsail. What would you do? A. Lower it down, and try her under bare poles. Q. What would you do when it moderated? A. Take the main boom and rig it for a foremast, and after it was secured to the stump of the old mast I would take the storm main trysail and gaff and rig and set it as a fore trysail. Q. How would you set your mainsail without a boom? A. Treble reefed, with a luff tackle for a sheet. Q. How would you proceed to ship your main boom as a foremast? A. Unship the boom from mainmast. Get the jaws of the boom against the stump of foremast on the deck. Lift the after end of the boom, with one of the boom topping lifts, high enough for a tackle from the bowsprit to bowse it perpendicular, having a guy on each side to keep the head of the boom amidships. I would clove hitch a warp over the upper end of the boom for two stays before hoisting the boom up. For shrouds I would use the two main boom topping lifts, one on each side, which are fitted with a runner and tackle. When perpendicular, lash and wedge the heel of the boom to the stump of foremast. Q. How would you anchor in the Downs, wind at S.W., tide setting NorthEast, and you were running in from the southward? A. Shorten sail to stay foresail and scandalized mainsail. Starboard the helm, haul down stay foresail, haul in the main sheet, and round to to leeward of Deal Bank Buoy. When head to wind, keep her so till she has lost headway. Down anchor and pay out chain. Lower the mainsail and furl sails. Q. How would you moor? A. Bring up with best bower anchor, slack away chain (say about sixty fathoms), and if the vessel would not drift to a position suitable for letting go the second anchor, send out a kedge anchor with a warp, and warp her to it. Let go the second anchor, slack away the chain, heaving in the best bower chain at the same time, until I had equal lengths out on both cables. Q. A. Q. A. How would you proceed to unmoor? Slack away on the weather cable, heave up the lee anchor, cat and fish it; then heave short on the weather cable, ready for getting under weigh. What is a lee tide? A tide setting to leeward, and with the wind. Q. How would you tend a vessel in a tideway? A. A light vessel to leeward, a loaded vessel to windward. Q. Suppose you were at anchor in a calm, how would you keep the chain clear A. of the anchor ? By heaving in the cable quite short without tripping the anchor. Q. What is meant by tide-rode? A. Swung round by the tide, and riding head to it, at anchor. Q. What is meant by wind-rode? A. When swung round by the force of the wind at anchor. Q. How would you place a kedge in a boat for carrying out? A. Stock over the stern, flukes in the boat on a plank or spar for canting overboard. Q. How would you carry out a bower anchor? A. The crown under the boat with a slip rope, and a ring rope over the stern. Q. You are on a lee shore, on anchorage ground, she will not stay, and there is no room to veer, how would you get her round? A. Unshackle lee anchor, bend on a warp from the lee quarter, let go the anchor when the helm is put down, gather in the slack, and hold on the warp, this will check her round. When round slip the warp. Q. How would you construct a raft to rescue a crew? A. 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