If it was not for the lashings, it would blow you right away.
"I have been at sea in gales that we thought were big ones, but nothing like this.

Of course, with our heavy ballast and bare poles, she don't lie over much.

It is the sea and not the wind that affects her, and her low free board is all in her favour.

But I believe a ship with a high side and yards and top hamper would be blown down on her beam ends and kept there." "Do you think that it blows as hard as it did, Purvis ?" "There ain't much difference, sir; but I do think there ain't quite so much weight in it.

I expect we are working our way out of it.