And so on, the memories pass before me, of a small schooner with stout timbers, of sunrises a thousand miles from the nearest land, of gales and calms, of tempests where a wall of water smashes into you with the force of a run- away train, and when the wave has passed, that greatest of memories: being alive, looking to the heavens beyond the screeching of the wind through the rigging and to say to [...] Such items as the size of rope, the weight of the anchors, the size of chains, the dependability of the sidelights, the wheel and the pumps were inspected; even the galley stove was checked to ensure that minimum safety standards were fol- lowed. [...] It was generally a race against the cod and the other skippers to see who reached the Labrador shoals first; the shorter the trip to the Labrador, the longer they were remembered. [...] Eli Tucker pronged the whole catch from the boat onto the schooner deck and from there into the box on the splitting table: "I used to wish there were two Sundays in the one week! You were drove that hard!" In the earlier years the Tuckers fished the Batteau area. [...] Until the weather was right, the fish was kept in the hold, and the schooner deck was either covered with boughs to absorb the direct heat of the sun or it was watered down to keep the cargo as cool as possible.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 387.2/2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459310506
- LCCN
- VM395.N67
- LCCN Item number
- C73 1994eb
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- CaNSHD
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- 1 electronic text (159 p., [14] p. of plates)
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604355 (OCoLC)288065025 (CaOOCEL)417072
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- Title proper/short title
- Norma & Gladys
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Introduction 12
- THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS 16
- Chapter 1 The Labrador Floater Fishery 16
- Chapter 2 Constructing Norma & Gladys 27
- Chapter 3 The Grand Banks Fishery 34
- Chapter 4 Coasting Around the Province 45
- A ROUGH PASSAGE-THE POLITICAL YEARS 55
- Chapter 5 A New Owner and a Grand Scheme 55
- Chapter 6 Okinawa or Bust! 61
- Chapter 7 Busted! - In New York 74
- Chapter 8 Charlie Parsons Wrestles With Pigs 81
- Chapter 9 Panama Turnaround 103
- Chapter 10 A Caribbean Holiday 108
- Chapter 11 Trouble In Barbados 114
- Chapter 12 Mutiny Over A Stowaway 125
- Chapter 13 Another Stowaway Attempt Is Plotted 131
- Chapter 14 The Successful Mediterranean Tour 136
- Chapter 15 Unexpected Help 148
- Chapter 16 A Royal Wedding in Stockholm 150
- Chapter 17 England and Ireland 156
- Chapter 18 Welcome Home! 160
- Chapter 19 Sailing with Bluenose II 167
- Chapter 20 Aground in Baccalieu Tickle 172
- Chapter 21 Newfoundland Schooner for Sale 176
- Chapter 22 Loss of Norma & Gladys 178
- Postscript 186
- Appendix A: Visitors - International Tour 188
- Appendix B: Visitors - Provincial Tour -1976 190
