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“Hadn’t you better heave the boom up with the topping lift?”

"Get another pull on your topping lift," ordered Mr. Oliver.

“Let go that topping lift, Pop!” he cried.

Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks.

In more recent ships a special derrick boom is rigged for this block, and a second accumulator is sometimes inserted between the topping lift by which this is raised and the end of the boom.