Echoes of Enchantment

There is the mainmast, fifteen ins in diameter at the thing that was now the butt, nevertheless sixty-five foot in total, and weighing, we approximately calculated, at the least three thousand pounds. After which came the foremast, bigger in diameter, and weighing undoubtedly thirty-five hundred pounds. Where ended up being we to begin with? Maud endured quietly by my part, while we developed in my own head the contrivance understood among sailors as "shears." But, however known to sailors, we created it here on Endeavour Island. By crossing and lashing the ends of two spars, after which elevating them within the atmosphere like an"V that is inverted" we might get a spot over the deck to which to create fast my hoisting tackle. For this hoisting tackle i possibly could, if required, connect a hoisting tackle that is 2nd. Then there was clearly the windlass!

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