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Author Archives: Ernest Shackleton
Don’t look back
“In steering a small boat before a heavy gale, don’t look back, it may disconcert you. Fix your eye with a glassy glare on a cloud or breaking sea right ahead & keep her straight, if you can. When you … Continue reading
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The particular hell of the moment
“…life was reckoned in periods of a few hours, or possibly only a few minutes—an endless succession of trials leading to deliverance from the particular hell of the moment. “…within each watch there were a number of subdivisions: the time … Continue reading
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One hand for yourself & one for the King
“So we all took it in turns to crawl out with an axe & chop it off. What a job! The boat leaping & kicking like a mad mule & a great fifteen inch thick slippery casing of ice over … Continue reading
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Wonderful
“The spray was now freezing on the canvas as it fell.” — Roland Huntford “It possessed a notable advantage from one point of view. The water ceased to drop and trickle from the canvas, and the spray came in solely … Continue reading
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Sea anchor
“A sea-anchor is a cone-shaped canvas bag attached by a line at its mouth to the bows. The apex, which has a small hole, points away from the ship, and the effect is to act as a drag in the … Continue reading
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We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch
“The boulders that we had taken aboard for ballast had to be shifted continually in order to trim the boat and give access to the pump, which became choked with hairs from the moulting sleeping bags and finneskoe. The four … Continue reading
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If a boat is overweighted, she jerks
“If a boat is overweighted, she jerks, will not sail fast & does not heel away from the wind & so constantly takes seas over her & is at all times wet… If ballast is too low it makes vessels … Continue reading
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Wicklike action
“All of them were dressed more or less the same way—heavy wool underwear, woolen trousers, a thick, loose sweater, with a pair of light gabardine Burberry overalls on the outside. Their heads were covered with knitted, woolen helmets and Burberry … Continue reading
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Merry jest of guesswork
“Navigation is an art, but words fail to give my efforts a correct name. Dead reckoning or DR—the seaman’s calculation of courses and distance—had become a merry jest of guesswork… The procedure was: I peered out from our burrow—precious sextant … Continue reading
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The Drake Passage
“Thus they had just crept over the line separating the ‘Raving Fifties’ from the ‘Screaming Sixties,’ so called because of the weather that prevails there. “This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and … Continue reading
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