gigamaree

There’s nothing in the shape of sea like it, for showing a man how to grope his way in the dark, to handle a marlin-spike, twist like a fox, and rig a Spanish windlass; as for your gigamaree jimcracks, I’ll say nothing about them; but for regular-built sailors, Jacks are the boys.

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829