steerer

On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew.

They were so quiet that, remembering them well, one comes to doubt that they ever existed - places of repose for tired ships to dream in, places of meditation rather than work, where wicked ships - the cranky, the lazy, the wet, the bad sea boats, the wild steerers, the capricious, the pig-headed, the generally ungovernable - would have full leisure to take count and repent of their sins, sorrowful and naked, with their rent garments of sailcloth stripped off them, and with the dust and ashes of the London atmosphere upon their mastheads.

Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not-the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling.

Its face is that of a tyrant, its numbers are false as those on a lottery ticket; its hands are those of a bunco steerer, who makes an appointment with you to your ruin.

Of the two sitters one held the rudder lines, and looked at us attentively - as did all the rowers; the other sitter was wrapped up, much as Provis was, and seemed to shrink, and whisper some instruction to the steerer as he looked at us.

Kugel, and Annette Bongiorno; the role of steerers Jeffry Picower, Norman F.

A further element was the exercise of craft skills by locomotive drivers and firemen and other grades--effectively the aristocracy of labour; these were analogous to the skills exercised by the steerers of narrow boat.

The taurapa (stern) points it to the wind; the kaihautu is the person who sets the beat and gives instructions to the steerers; the kaiarahi are the steerers and it is their responsibility to keep things on track; the kaihoe are the paddlers who get the waka to its destination and ensure the goals and purposes of the organisation are met; the hoe are the paddles, the power source of the waka; and the riu (hull) of the waka is the cradle of NZNO (see below).

Give your best heavy-weather steerers rest; you will need them later.