Seven days before, atop and around the mast: (Block Island Times)

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"Two-six, HEAVE; two-six, HEAVE." I don't think I, my fellow chaperone Sheila Fowler, or any of the 11 Block Island School students who spent a week living and sailing aboard the 125-foot schooner Spirit of Massachusetts will soon forget that call. It's a line - oops, I mean a chant - designed to encourage coordinated hauling of a line (which should never, ever, be called a "rope").

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