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The men leapt to the sheets, halliards, buntlines and clewlines and the moment he gave the order the flapping, cracking, streaming sailcloth was gathered into the top, there to be mastered, unbent and sent down -they laid aloft as though they were on a millpond with never a breeze at all.
Los marineros corrieron a coger las escotas, las drizas, los brioles y los chafaldetes y, en cuanto recibieron la orden, plegaron la vela rota y ondulante hasta que llegó a la cofa, donde la soltaron de la verga para mandarla abajo.
In almost total silence the hands appointed to gaskets, sheets, clewlines and buntlines, ties, halyards and then braces carried out their tasks with barely a word, at great speed: a pretty example of exact timing, co-ordination and long-established skill, if there had been anyone there who did not take it for granted.
En un silencio casi total, los marineros destacados en tomadores, escotas, chafaldetes y brioles, ostagas, drizas y después, brazas, desempeñaron sus tareas con apenas una palabra y a una gran velocidad, un excelente ejemplo de ritmo, coordinación y sólida destreza, por si alguno de los allí presentes no daban estas cosas por sentado.
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