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NICHOLLS'S SEAMANSTTTP AND N \UTIPAL KNOWLEDGE

2. How would you launch, a life-boat with the Welin Quadrant Davit
fitted with tackle falls and given 6 hands?

Number oft the crew 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Nos. 1 and 2 into the boat, pass out the davit falls, bottom plug in
and see life-lines clear.

No. 3 pass the end of the slip painter into the boat. No. 4 let go
gripes and down chocks, then Nos. 3 and 4 man the turning gear at each
davit and turn the boat out.

1 Fig 4.—Welin Quadrant Davit.
Nos. 5 and 6, one to each davit fall and lower away to the embark-
ation deck, Nos. 3 and 4 backing up the falls.
When everybody is embarked, lower away to the water, let*go the
falls and unhook the blocks. The four hands on deck slide down the
life-lines or davit falls into the boat.-
Crew—out oars, let go the slip painter, push off, give way together.
3* Describe how you would launch a boat with the Welin-Maclachlan
Gravity Davit and three hands?
Two hands into the boat and see life-lines clear and bottom plug in.
One hand casts of! the gripes, then goes to the winch brake and raises
lever. The boat automatically slides down the runway and finds its