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Post  Jacob Chase Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:55 pm

"No? Shame, 'cause a foretopman's gotta be tall," Chase remarked with a deliberately neutral expression.

The effect, however, was promptly ruined by Dyer, who added, "Aye. That's so he can look down on the lads what're in the other mast crews."

"I heared that, you big-headed rascals," Tim Ha'penny called across the boat tier. Chase simply grinned. It wasn't his fault Ha'penny was a mizzentopman.
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Post  Terry Button Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:15 pm

Terry giggled at Dyer's immediate retaliation and put up a hand to straighten his hat.

"So... howdya 'splain Young Oates's bein' so much shorter'n you then?" he asked, indicating a young seaman just coming up behind them.
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Post  Jacob Chase Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:15 am

"What, him?" Davey Hobbs grinned. "He's only with us 'cause his da tole us he'd be."

Chase took the tale smoothly up. "Aye. What Ol' Oates says usually goes."
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Post  Terry Button Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:35 am

Terry dared enough to stick his tongue out at them - and prepared to duck in case anyone went to box his ears for the impertinence. "Wasn't what I said. I said, how'd you explain his bein' shorter'n you, not how'd he get to be a foretopman."
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Post  Jacob Chase Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:50 am

"Oh that? It's 'cause of him not likin' ship's biscuit," Chase replied. Young Oates simply smirked.

There was a snort from Dyer. "That an' he weren't always in the foretop, so it's on'y fair for him to be Tom-thumb."
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Post  Keiju Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:15 am

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"Wot're ya tellin' t'boy now?" Thom Boyles enquired, ranging casually alongside. "Fillin' 'is pore 'ead fulla wild stories, I t'ink!"
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:08 am

"Dunno as anyone likes ship's biscuit, 'zackly," Terry said doubtfully. He didn't himself, exactly, which wasn't to say he didn't eat it of course.

"They bin showin' me some knots, Mister Boyles," Terry said loyally. He was a little nervous of the petty officers, of course, and a little nervous of Boyles anyway - he was so very black! He'd never seen a black man before coming aboard Terpsy.
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:20 am

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Chase and Dyer exchanged smirks but said nothing.

The big petty officer, on the other hand, seemed amused. "Learnin' ya knots, issit? 'Ow manny they teached ya yet?"
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:37 am

"Um." He had to count on his fingers. He knew the bowline, the running bowline, a bowline on a bight, the sheet bend, a clove hitch, the timber hitch, the reef knot (of course) and the carrick bend... sort of. He'd also been shown the rolling hitch, though he couldn't tie that one yet.

"Um... eight. Though one of 'em's only sorta. 'M still learnin' it, I mean."
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:50 am

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Boyles seemed unsurprised. "A goodly few, t'at. Can ya do 'em wit' yer eyes shut?"

"Here, Boyles," Chase cut in, struggling to look disapproving. "Better fit he learn 'em, normal-like, 'fore he tries anythin' fancy."
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:54 am

Terry shook his head. He'd never tried that - he was still having to think what bit of string went where, for each knot, after all.

"Ain't that good attem yet, Mister Boyles," he said doubtfully. They were all teasing him again, weren't they?
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:00 am

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"T'en t'ey ain't teachin' ya right." Boyles shook his head. "A good seaman needs t'know 'is knots by feelin', 'cuz t'ere ain't always light t'see by, y'know."

Chase rolled his eyes, aware that Boyles was correct but unwilling to admit as much.
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 5:04 am

There wasn't anything Terry could say to that, not really. He thought they were doing all right, and it wasn't as though he knew the knots well enough to even begin to work out how to tie them if he couldn't see what he was doing. "Um."
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 5:40 am

"He's right, though," Davey Hobbs said. "Tyin' a Flemish bend, or sommat, in the blindin' dark's no mean trick, it ain't."

There was a snort from Chase. "But you needs to know a knot top to bottom 'fore you can do any of that. The nipper's nowheres near that, is he, an' he can't be 'xpected t'be. He's on'y just started his learnin'!"
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:06 am

Terry looked up at Chase and shifted a bit closer to him. He had no intention of trying to tie anything with his eyes closed, not yet, not in front of all these grown-up Able Seamen, anyway.

Not a chance!
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:05 am

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"Excuses, ever' bit of it," declared Boyles with a smile. "But t'ere's always somet'in' to learn. D'ya know yer ropes, nipper?"

"Course he does," Chase said but Boyles waved a hand to shut him up.
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:21 am

"I knows the braces an' halyards an' most the stays," Terry said, wondering again how he was ever going to remember everything - there was such a lot to know.
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:35 am

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"From bowsprit away aft?"
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:52 am

"I can't... I can't name 'em 'ccordin' to their places in the pin-rail," Terry said hastily, hoping to ward off the Inquisition a bit. "But I knows where they's at to go to for... for tackin' an' all."
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:00 am

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"Now c'mon, Boyles," Chase began again.

Boyles ignored him. "T'ey ain't teachin' ya right. C'mon, nipper." He moved toward the fore prinrail, leaving an irritated-looking Chase in his wake.
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:04 am

"They are," Terry said loyally. "There's jus' such a powerful lot to learn, is all!" He still followed the petty officer to the pinrail, though, wondering how he was ever going to remember everything.
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:11 am

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It did not appear as though Boyles was listening to him. "D'ya know which o' these goes where?" He was pointing at the foremost lines in the pinrail.
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:21 am

"Braces," Terry answered promptly. He knew this bit. "Fore royal, fore t'gallant, foretops'l, forecourse," he said, pointing at each in turn, after squinting up at the white canvas towering above them to make sure that there weren't any sails set that he didn't know.
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Post  Jacob Chase Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:31 am

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The petty officer stuffed a hand into his trouser pocket. "An' t'em aft of 'em?"
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Post  Terry Button Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:40 am

"Halyards, sir," Terry said, the honorific slipping out automatically. "Royal, t'gallant', topsail, course, the same's the braces."
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