The Revengers (2013)
The Revengers
““Coming.” Rising and sliding out from under the big table, she gave us a thin smile. “Maybe we’ll have our little press demonstration sooner than I expected. Watch them, Giulio.”
She took an instrument from a bracket on the bulkhead above the chart table. It looked like a good-sized compass with a pistol grip and sighting vanes. She climbed halfway up the companionway ladder and turned to stand there facing forward; we could only see the lower part of her body. Minutes passed; then she came... back down and hung up the sighting compass again, shaking her head.
“Container ship, passing well ahead; the bearing’s drawing forward. Well, I prefer to hunt at night, anyway.” She seated herself and regarded us for a moment. “You see, I don’t cheat. Maybe I could have started the motor and gained enough speed to put Jamboree across his course, but I don’t work that way. For one thing, it would have been legally wrong. With the motor going, we become a power-driven vessel under the law, even if we have the sails up; we’d have no more rights than he does, and coming from starboard he’d have the right of way.MoreLess
She took an instrument from a bracket on the bulkhead above the chart table. It looked like a good-sized compass with a pistol grip and sighting vanes. She climbed halfway up the companionway ladder and turned to stand there facing forward; we could only see the lower part of her body. Minutes passed; then she came... back down and hung up the sighting compass again, shaking her head.
“Container ship, passing well ahead; the bearing’s drawing forward. Well, I prefer to hunt at night, anyway.” She seated herself and regarded us for a moment. “You see, I don’t cheat. Maybe I could have started the motor and gained enough speed to put Jamboree across his course, but I don’t work that way. For one thing, it would have been legally wrong. With the motor going, we become a power-driven vessel under the law, even if we have the sails up; we’d have no more rights than he does, and coming from starboard he’d have the right of way.MoreLess
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