I have worked like a Trojan all day, and the idea is realized.
Margaret helped me out with suggestions, and Tom Spink did the
sailorizing. Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays
that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of
the poop and across the main deck to the mizzenmast. A light line
has been thrown over each stay, and been thrown repeatedly around so
as to form an unslipping knot. Tom Spink waited till dark, when he
went aloft and attached loose rings of stiff wire around the stays
below the knots. Also he bent on hoisting-gear and connected
permanent fastenings with the sliding rings. And further, between
rings and fastenings, is a slack of fifty feet of light line.
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