He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.

The best pole-chains are those one end of which is fastened to a langet - frequently called a bridle - which slips over the end of the pole-hook, and fits into its place at the end of the polehead, the other end of the pole-chain having a long hook.

‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

A grand narrative can be defined as a grand, unifying theory of life. Grand narratives include speculative theories as diverse as Christianity (human history is part of a grand divine plan), liberalism (human history and human society are inexorably moving towards the creation of a rational, enlightened society), capitalism (human history is to be seen as an overall thrust towards increasing creation and accumulation) and, of course, Marxism (human history is caught up in a conflict that will eventually lead to the formation of a classless society). Lyotard sometimes refers to grand narratives as speculative apparatus.