All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood

All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood

Author:William Charles Henry Wood [Wood, William Charles Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Canada -- History, Navigation -- History, Inland navigation -- Canada, Fisheries -- Canada
Published: 2008-03-11T00:00:00+00:00


unless he has heard it when all hands make sail on leaving port, and the deck begins pulsating with the first throb of the swell that sets in landward across the bar. And what can this chorus really mean to any one who has never heard it roared by strong male voices to the running accompaniment of seething water overside?

What ho, Piper! watch her how she goes!

Give her sheet and let her rip.

We're the boys to pull her through.

You ought to see her rolling home;

For she's the gal to go

In the passage home in ninety days

From Cal-i-for-ni-o!



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