Don't you hear them?
They wouldn't be sweeping a big vessel like the _Martha_." "Besides, the _Martha_ has a gasoline engine--twenty-five horse-power," Tudor added.
"Just the sort of a craft for us," Joan said wistfully to Sheldon.

"I really must see if I can't get a schooner with an engine.

I might get a second-hand engine put in." "That would mean the additional expense of an engineer's wages," he objected.
"But it would pay for itself by quicker passages," she argued; "and it would be as good as insurance.

I know.

I've knocked about amongst reefs myself.