In practice the loose ends were belayed, one over the other, around the top spokes of the wheel.] The windlass used was in the shape of a winch, or crab, I think it is called.

I had three anchors, weighing forty pounds, one hundred pounds, and one hundred and eighty pounds respectively.

The windlass and the forty-pound anchor, and the "fiddle-head," or carving, on the end of the cutwater, belonged to the original _Spray_.

The ballast, concrete cement, was stanchioned down securely.

There was no iron or lead or other weight on the keel.
If I took measurements by rule I did not set them down, and after sailing even the longest voyage in her I could not tell offhand the length of her mast, boom, or gaff.