From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter. A lead keel of fabulous but unknown weight makes her very stable, while she carries an immense spread of canvas. Her beam, or width, is twenty-three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet. It was the Ghost herself that lured Johnson into signing for the voyage, but he is already beginning to repent.Īs he told me, the Ghost is an eighty-ton schooner of a remarkably fine model. He is greatly disgusted with the outlook, and I am given to understand that Wolf Larsen bears a very unsavoury reputation among the sealing captains. He spoke enthusiastically, with the love for a fine craft such as some men feel for horses. Johnson was telling me about her in a short chat I had with him during yesterday’s second dog-watch. Her lines and fittings-though I know nothing about such things-speak for themselves. In fact, she was once a private yacht, and was built for speed. The Ghost is considered the fastest schooner in both the San Francisco and Victoria fleets. The hunters, too, are supposed to be in command of the watches, subject, always, to the orders of Wolf Larsen.Īll this, and more, I have learned. On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew. Three, a hunter, a boat-puller, and a boat-steerer, compose a boat’s crew. There are seven boats aboard, the captain’s dingey, and the six which the hunters will use. The men were all on deck and busy preparing their various boats for the season’s hunting. Occasional light airs were felt, however, and Wolf Larsen patrolled the poop constantly, his eyes ever searching the sea to the north-eastward, from which direction the great trade-wind must blow. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!īy the following morning the storm had blown itself quite out and the Ghost was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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