quarter-boat

The longboat came abreast and “spoke” the quarter-boat.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Parr shouted, a cry taken up by others in his quarter-boat.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Mr. Hardy took charge of one quarter-boat, while John Parr, the second mate, sat at the tiller of the other.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

My father clipped his safety belt onto the guy wire that ran from the monkey board to the roof of the quarter-boat and jumped.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

My father clipped his safety belt onto the guy wire that ran from the monkey board to the roof of the quarter-boat and jumped.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

But the rig caved with him, crashed across the top of the quarter-boat, and took my father and nineteen other roughnecks down to the bottom of the Gulf with it.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

But the rig caved with him, crashed across the top of the quarter-boat, and took my father and nineteen other roughnecks down to the bottom of the Gulf with it.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

My father clipped his safety belt onto the guy wire that ran from the monkey board to the roof of the quarter-boat and jumped.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

But the rig caved with him, crashed across the top of the quarter-boat, and took my father and nineteen other roughnecks down to the bottom of the Gulf with it.

Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988