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64 of the bow rail and can be raised to a A inverted V shaped support, which can be stayed for and aft and carries on its apex a block, which leads a rope to the winch, and then lifts the mast high enough until the winch can pull the forestay. [[drawing of boat with annotation of 'mast']] [[drawing of V shaped support with annotation: These rings are for the guys.]] [[drawing with annotation: method of fastening the shears]] [[drawing with annotations: steel sockets for the 2 poles of the shears; This is articulated on the rails.]] [[drawing of boat with annotations: X shears + block for hoisting mast; rope]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 65 The Chinese sailors and rustabouts [[underline]] sing out [[\underline]] and have their chantings just as the singing arabs on the Nile. Some of the boats only manned by a stickset woman while her baby was peeping out from the desk; all this unconcerned amongst the many bumping boats entering the creek pell-mell carried by the current, or bumping against overloaded top heavy other boats. The leeboards on the boats are not gracefully shaped as in Holland but are [[underline]] almost like planks [[\underline]] of which one end is only slightly narrower than the other. [[drawing of leeboard and of boat]] Leeboards seem to be made of teak