The Blue Ice (2016)

Authors: Hammond Innes

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“And I hadn’t time to think about it then. Dahler’s body was crumpled over the wheel, jamming it. The mainsail, still overweighted with canvas in the howling wind, was dragging at the mast. With the port backstay gone and the starboard backstay slack the massive timber of the mast was bending to each gust. I could hear it groaning above the thunder of the seas breaking inboard over the bows. I hauled Dahler’s body off the wheel and thrust it into the cockpit. Then I put the helm hard to starb’d ...and brought the ship up into the wind. ‘Haul in on the mainsheet, Jorgensen,’ I shouted as the boom began to swing loosely inboard.
Somehow we got the boat close-hauled and the starboard backstay set up. Then I handed the wheel over to Jill and went for’ard with Jorgensen to get a reef in the mainsail and repair the port backstay. Curtis wasn’t badly hurt, but he’d a nasty cut on his shoulder and I sent him below as soon as Wilson arrived on deck. ‘Take Dahler with you,’ I told him.MoreLess Read More Read Less