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 A vessel riding to her drogue with some forty fathoms of hawser out (grass rope which floats on the water is perhaps the best), as she drags astern is ever kept head to wind and sea, and cannot well pay off or get broadside on to the waves as they roll by her.

If no drogue is carried on board, a very effective one can be extemporised by bending one side of a small jib or other sail to a spar and riding to that (Fig. 67). The hawser must be attached to the