Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands--visitors and all--were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars. [Please select]
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Now and then a frightened sloop came hurrying in with close-reefed jib, sousing her bow under at every plunge. [Please select]
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They carried the mainsail very closely reefed, so as just to give her steerage-way, and proceeded thus for three hours, making 20 miles. [Please select]
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They had taken in the reefed mainsail, for fear some wave of the sea should carry all away. [Please select]
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We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard-a-weather. [Please select]
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As the sail rattled up, flapping wildly, Kirkwood marked with relief--for it meant so much time saved--that it was already close reefed. [Please select]
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