Add to ORKGrigI have known a man, who could not read a letter in a book, go into the wood, and cut down timber, bring the same out with the help of a servant, and build a boat, rig it, and afterwards to to sea with the same boat.PRINTED ITEMGMS Jan 76Not usedNot usedWithdraw
sticksup with the sails and run for Newfoundland waters with all speed, though we risked ripping th...
halfOur skipper could not read or write, so to make matters clear and intelligible for him, I drew...
timbersThe "Timbers" or frames are made of black spruce and give both support and shape to the sid...
shoallyThe boat having taken her station on a ledge, or other shoally ground, each line being faste...
fit v"Well, byes," he interjected, "them was mostly poor-built boats. Not fitten to go to sea. Not ...
rigA new schooner was being built up there. The owners wanted Harry to rig her. . . If the vess...
fish vNow, if they were to save the mast it must be _fished_. There was no spare lumber on board wi...
bendWe, in course of time, completed the rigging and commenced to bend the sails, which had been ma...
skipper vIn those early days ... [they] owned a boat or schooner built and skippered by the same m...
stick n[They] cut timbers and sticks for the boat.PRINTED ITEM GMSMar 76Used I and SupUsed I and S...
boat nI had to get enough firewood out of the bay in boat so I had to go into the woods every day ...
rig vI lit the lantern, took the nets, bouys and moorings out on my wharf, rigged the [herring]...
transomAny person understanding building a schooner knows the transom is more complicated than the...
boat nJohn Baskem, foreman boat-builder, and his wife and two children also, came in the Dispatch.P...
saw-logsCertainly there was still much to be done, such as securing timber for boats to be built la...
sticksup with the sails and run for Newfoundland waters with all speed, though we risked ripping th...
halfOur skipper could not read or write, so to make matters clear and intelligible for him, I drew...
timbersThe "Timbers" or frames are made of black spruce and give both support and shape to the sid...
shoallyThe boat having taken her station on a ledge, or other shoally ground, each line being faste...
fit v"Well, byes," he interjected, "them was mostly poor-built boats. Not fitten to go to sea. Not ...
rigA new schooner was being built up there. The owners wanted Harry to rig her. . . If the vess...
fish vNow, if they were to save the mast it must be _fished_. There was no spare lumber on board wi...
bendWe, in course of time, completed the rigging and commenced to bend the sails, which had been ma...
skipper vIn those early days ... [they] owned a boat or schooner built and skippered by the same m...
stick n[They] cut timbers and sticks for the boat.PRINTED ITEM GMSMar 76Used I and SupUsed I and S...
boat nI had to get enough firewood out of the bay in boat so I had to go into the woods every day ...
rig vI lit the lantern, took the nets, bouys and moorings out on my wharf, rigged the [herring]...
transomAny person understanding building a schooner knows the transom is more complicated than the...
boat nJohn Baskem, foreman boat-builder, and his wife and two children also, came in the Dispatch.P...
saw-logsCertainly there was still much to be done, such as securing timber for boats to be built la...
sticksup with the sails and run for Newfoundland waters with all speed, though we risked ripping th...
halfOur skipper could not read or write, so to make matters clear and intelligible for him, I drew...
timbersThe "Timbers" or frames are made of black spruce and give both support and shape to the sid...