And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you were wondering why both men on the quarterdeck are looking towards the stern, I think they're intensely attentive about the square sail (I've heard it called a Spanker) out of the frame to the left. . . very hard to steer if the wind rips it to pieces.
It's a strong wind for them to have reeved up the mains'l so high. Brave men. I'd've already had all those square sails furled and tightly lashed at this point.
If you were wondering why both men on the quarterdeck are looking towards the stern, I think they're intensely attentive about the square sail (I've heard it called a Spanker) out of the frame to the left. . . very hard to steer if the wind rips it to pieces.
ReplyDeleteIt's a strong wind for them to have reeved up the mains'l so high. Brave men. I'd've already had all those square sails furled and tightly lashed at this point.
AAHHH sailbooters. takes all kinds
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