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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1955
"In wintertime we sends 'em down and we sails as a flatroofer -- nawthin' but the four lowers -- winter rig we calls it."
1955
The working rig of a fishing schooner of the period was the "four lowers" -- mainsail, foresail, jumbo (or fore-stag sail) and jib. . . . In winter months, the vessels sent down their topmasts and stored their light sails ashore and went to sea as "Flat-roofers."