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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]]
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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