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The Smeaton rode at what sailors call a salvagee, with a cross-head made fast to the floating buoy.
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The Smeaton rode at what sailors call a salvagee, with a cross-head made fast to the floating buoy.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the BITE of the hawser thrown over the cross-head.
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The salvagee and cross method is, however, much practised; but the experience of this morning showed it to be very unsuitable for vessels riding in an exposed situation for any length of time.
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But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.
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While doing this, of course, I had another practical lesson in seamanship, learning all about "double luffs" and "toggles," "salvagee strops" and "Burton tackles," and all the rest of such gear, whose name is legion.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the BITE of the hawser thrown over the cross-head.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The salvagee and cross method is, however, much practised; but the experience of this morning showed it to be very unsuitable for vessels riding in an exposed situation for any length of time.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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