The First Cruiser Out, a Cuban War Story; Visitors at Grampus Island; And the Tale of an Oar (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stoddard, William Osborn

 
9780282546458: The First Cruiser Out, a Cuban War Story; Visitors at Grampus Island; And the Tale of an Oar (Classic Reprint)

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They were in a stoutly-built yawl, rigged as a catboat; that is, it had a mast, stepped well forward, carrying a boom and sail. Their present difficulty was that all the wind they had started from the shore with had blown itself out and they were floating helplessly about upon the long, slow swells which came in from the ocean.

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