"The wind hain't backed ner riz ner nothin'.

How abaout the trawl?
I despise superstition, anyway." Tom Platt insisted that they had much better haul the thing and make a new berth.

But the cook said: "The luck iss in two pieces.

You will find it so when you look.

I know." This so tickled Long Jack that he overbore Tom Platt and the two went out together.
Underrunning a trawl means pulling it in on one side of the dory, picking off the fish, rebaiting the hooks, and passing them back to the sea again--something like pinning and unpinning linen on a wash-line.
It is a lengthy business and rather dangerous, for the long, sagging line may twitch a boat under in a flash.