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I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.
Chapter 26 2010
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The boat-steerers have the same, and the foremast hands, salt beef, pork, and hard tack, and occasionally pie.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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There were six boat-steerers and five boat-pullers and the same logic held with them.
Chapter 17 2010
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The sealing fleet was wintering in San Francisco Bay, and in the saloons I met skippers, mates, hunters, boat-steerers, and boat-pullers.
Chapter 15 2010
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I remember, somewhere, sitting in a circle with Japanese fishermen, Kanaka boat-steerers from our own vessels, and a young
Chapter 16 2010
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There we stood at the long bar -- the sailing master, the mate, the six hunters, the six boat-steerers, and the five boat-pullers.
Chapter 17 2010
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It seems that he has been seal-hunting regularly each season for a dozen years, and is accounted one of the two or three very best boat-steerers in both fleets.
Chapter 6 2010
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Some were hooking on the falls, others casting off the lashings; boat-steerers appeared with boat-compasses and water-breakers, and boat-pullers with the lunch boxes.
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In teaching her I learned quite a deal myself, though I was applying the knowledge already acquired by sailing the Ghost and by watching the boat-steerers sail the small boats.
Chapter 27 2010
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Some were hooking on the falls, others casting off the lashings; boat-steerers appeared with boat-compasses and water-breakers, and boat-pullers with the lunch boxes.
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