The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit.
The consultation ended in the men returning to the windlass, and the pitman going down again, carrying the wine and some other small matters with him.
When all was ready, this man, still taking his last hurried charges from his comrades and the surgeon after the windlass had begun to lower him, disappeared into the pit.
For, now, the rope came in, tightened and strained to its utmost as it appeared, and the men turned heavily, and the windlass complained.
By this time a whole village was up: and windlasses, ropes, poles, candles, lanterns, all things necessary, were fast collecting and being brought into one place, to be carried to the Old Hell Shaft.
Again instructing Maud to slack away at the windlass when I gave the word, I proceeded to heave on the watch-tackle.
Everything in readiness, I made a line fast to the apex of the shears and carried it directly to the windlass. I was growing to have faith in that windlass, for it gave me power beyond all expectation.
Forward lay the windlass and its tackle, with the chain and hemp cables, all very unpleasant to trip over; the fo'c'sle stovepipe, and the gurry-butts by the fo'c'sle-hatch to hold the fish-livers.
"Take a-hold here, an' keep ringin' steady," said Dan, passing Harvey the lanyard of a bell that hung just behind the windlass.
When Riderhood had run to his second
windlass and turned it, and while he leaned against the lever of that gate to help it to swing open presently, he noticed, lying to rest under the green hedge by the towing-path astern of the Lock, a Bargeman.
The
windlass, water-oil coolers, ten pumps, air cylinders, piping system, watertight doors, windows, power management and protection systems, and other mechanisms were repaired.
The protocol allowed no more than three turns of the tourniquet
windlass, to avoid pain to participants.
He said: "The Barafundle wreck appears every 10 years or so when the sea and weather conditions cut away the sand at the beach to reveal ship's timbers, a
windlass and an anchor.
By purchasing this property from
Windlass Woods, LLC., the county is guaranteeing its ability to serve as a filter for stormwater, protecting the water quality of Middle River and the Chesapeake Bay.
