By the Sea, book Three: Laura
“The sun beat down relentlessly.
The lumber strapped on deck began to split from one end to the other; the crew formed a bucket brigade to slosh it down with salt water before it became useless for building. Laura continued to take sun-sights, more for the practice than anything else, and was astonished to see that the schooner had begun to go backwards: with no wind to move her along, the Virginia was falling victim to the Gulf Stream current.
"We're being dragged back to New England," Laura sa...id in disgust as she and Colin pondered the chart showing the pitiable progress of their last few days. "I really cannot stand this," she said, seething with frustration. "It's so ...
impractical. A steamer would have been there by now." She threw a pencil across the chart. The cabin was stifling, and her thick long hair had begun to slip its braid and cling to her cheeks and neck.
Nothing made her more irritable. "People will think we're dead.
People will worry." "Anyone with half a brain will understand that the ocean is a fickle mistress," Colin argued coolly.MoreLess
The lumber strapped on deck began to split from one end to the other; the crew formed a bucket brigade to slosh it down with salt water before it became useless for building. Laura continued to take sun-sights, more for the practice than anything else, and was astonished to see that the schooner had begun to go backwards: with no wind to move her along, the Virginia was falling victim to the Gulf Stream current.
"We're being dragged back to New England," Laura sa...id in disgust as she and Colin pondered the chart showing the pitiable progress of their last few days. "I really cannot stand this," she said, seething with frustration. "It's so ...
impractical. A steamer would have been there by now." She threw a pencil across the chart. The cabin was stifling, and her thick long hair had begun to slip its braid and cling to her cheeks and neck.
Nothing made her more irritable. "People will think we're dead.
People will worry." "Anyone with half a brain will understand that the ocean is a fickle mistress," Colin argued coolly.MoreLess
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