Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 80 | The bilge is pumped View more quotes about once">once a day in calm weather; twice, or more, if the sea is heavy. |
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Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 77 | This crawl space, further, in its center, rather amidships and toward the stern, contains the sump, or bilge. |
| 2 | 78 | In it the water which is inevitably shipped between the caulked, tarred, expanding, contracting, sea-buffeted wooden planking is gathered. |
| 2 | 79 | It is commonly foul, and briny. |
| 2 | 80 | The bilge is pumped once a day in calm weather; twice, or more, if the sea is heavy. |
| 2 | 81 | The Tesephone, like almost all galleys, is ballasted with sand, kept in the lower hold. |
| 2 | 82 | If she carries much cargo in the first hold, forcing her lower in the water, sand may be discarded. |
| 2 | 83 | Such galleys normally function optimally with a freeboard area of three to five feet. |
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This crawl space, further, in its center, rather amidships and toward the stern, contains the sump, or bilge.
In it the water which is inevitably shipped between the caulked, tarred, expanding, contracting, sea-buffeted wooden planking is gathered.
It is commonly foul, and briny.
The bilge is pumped once a day in calm weather; twice, or more, if the sea is heavy.
The Tesephone, like almost all galleys, is ballasted with sand, kept in the lower hold.
If she carries much cargo in the first hold, forcing her lower in the water, sand may be discarded.
Such galleys normally function optimally with a freeboard area of three to five feet.
- (Hunters of Gor)