Fire
“Give him some slack!” Roy said, his voice rising.
Joe was struggling to clip spinnaker pole to mast as the boat heaved, and Roy wanted the spinnaker out about a minute ago. There were seven lines feeding through the clutches on the deckhouse, and I didn’t have a clue which one would give Joe the slack he needed.
“Pull the downhaul!”
Crap. I don’t know the downhaul from the outhaul, and barely from a haul-out. I sure as hell don’t know which of the lines coming through the clutches was which.
“Second from the outside!” Roy said.
I reached up and tightened the line second from the outside.