paid hand

Oh, and a man named Nick, paid hand on the schooner.

So do I for that matter; paid hands are nothing but a nuisance on a boat.

It is related by Hurst, a paid hand in a small private yacht.

Volunteers and paid hands alike, came together to restore the beautiful beaches of Pembrokeshire.

The anchors come and go throughout the book, traded by the cable news networks like highly paid hand puppets.

Nobody's aboard except Nick, the paid hand.

They all paid hand over fist."

I'm the sole full-time paid hand, and we also have the services of Nancy Engel, a public relations consultant who works for us part time."

The boats and the paid hands who maintain and deliver them to races need a base of operations, and yacht clubs are still the best places to find crew.

Hepherd kept her in the Hamble River off Luke's Yard; before the war he had had three paid hands, but now with increasing costs he had only one, a Brixham fisherman.

The Devonian was as willing as any paid hand, swarmed aloft among the first, pulled his natural weight and firmly upon a rope, and found work for himself when there was none to show him.

"As much as any laborer in the mines, I am simply a paid hand," Agnew explained in a recent interview at Gold Fields' plush offices near St. James Square in London.

In 1872 the Munster Model Yacht Club was founded as a Corinthian Yacht Club to provide for amateur racing rather than racing for wagers on yachts of wealthy owners with paid hands.

"He's got a lot more confidence than I ever had at that age," Street said about Mark, who has been working as a paid hand on a 125-foot schooner in the Caribbean and whose ambition is to skipper such craft for a living.

I corrupted as far as ever my means allowed me to, sometimes borrowing for the purpose; I do not think I seriously damaged any man's character, and I believe it paid hands down, for the service, for my ship's company and for me.

At the same time there was a noticeable decrease in the availability of paid hands - at least at the rate which the average yachtsman, faced with rising costs of materials and rail fares (the easiest way of getting to the boat for those living inland) could afford, as rates of pay had increased about 70%.