"Surfboat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kept them year after year. Then the wracking-masters hired him, his boat and his crew. Best crew chosen first, of course. Two dollars a day each was reckoned good pay. They got famous names, some of them surfboat crews," reflectively. "There was William Chadwick—Bill Shattuck he goes by—his crew was known from Sandy Hook to Hatteras. There's one of them now: he can tell you about it ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various |
