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... We had a half-day's respite before the second storm hit.Shomoah's crew were all veterans, whether long-time Duke's Navy or recently recruited from merchantmen we had stopped. They all knew the sea. They knew how to observe the weather. So a sort of murmur ran through the ship when a black line appeared to the southwest. Storm on the horizon... and the horizon was not very far away.
The men had not had time to recover from the previous storm. They would soon be exhausted, and not very lucid in a crisis... so I had to avoid crises.
I ordered my watch aloft to take in all of Shomoah's sails except a heavily reefed foretops'l. Unless the storm was extraordinarily powerful, there should be no further need to send anyone aloft. ...
Homage to C. S. Forester.