Steady, sir. Mast head ahoy!

So let me draw ourselves a mast.

The mast broke and our ship went adrift.

All right, so tie me to the mast.

All of them, faithful hands before the mast.

And they say the mast is 20 feet tall.

The main mast of a fishing boat is supported by a sturdy rope that extends from the top of the mast to the deck.

The main mast is broken. The cabin boy is on deck.

The rope attaches 15 feet away from the base of the mast.

October 13. There she blows, was sung out from the mast head.

If the mast is 20 feet tall and the rope attaches to the deck 15 feet away from the base of the mast, how long is the rope?

No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast head.

On the left hand side, there's a new type of mooring, which I'll show you in just a second.

You tie me to the mast, and I'm going to beg and plead.

And no matter what I say, you cannot untie me from the mast.

And (Noah) said Embark. In the name of God be its course and mooring. My Lord is surely forgiving and kind.

And he said Embark therein! In the name of Allah be its course and its mooring. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

And the rope attaches right here, from the top of the mast all the way that base.

We're assuming that the mast goes straight up and that the deck is straight left and right.

And the first mate takes a rope and ties Odysseus to the mast in a nice knot.

This is the water down here. And then the mast is the thing that holds up the sail.

Tying yourself to a mast is perhaps the oldest written example of what psychologists call a commitment device.

For the second point, when traveling at sea you can see farther from the top of the mast,

Ulysses knew that when the sirens come he will be temped, so he tied himself to the mast, asked his men to tie themselves to the mast and to put beeswax in their ears, so that they wouldn't be tempted, either.

And then they say a rope attaches to the deck 15 feet away from the base of the mast.

So if this is the base of the mast, we go 15 feet, might be about that distance right there.

So let's draw ourselves a boat and make sure we understand what the deck and the mast and all of that is.

This repeats itself through the night rehearsal, tying to the mast, conning his way out of it, beating the poor first mate up mercilessly.

During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450 watt turbine up the mast.

That's why when you look at old ships, you often see a crow's nest high up on the mast where a spotter could look for land.

led in by crows... a large devil fire lighting the top of its mast. you're doomed to a journey by sea to the land of the dead.

The Greeks also knew that when traveling at sea, you can see farther a greater distance from the top of the mast than from the deck of the ship.

The vessel under short sail, with look outs at the mast heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular voyage.

38 years old, no priors not even a parking ticket, we're just pretty good considering he's a top mast distributor on the eastern seaboard, all the crystal from the Gulf Cartel is his.

I took my skis and I took a board and I put a mast foot in there, and some foot straps, and some metal fins, and here I was, going really fast on frozen lakes.

But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal mast with your hearts for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven storied heavens, and making refugees of long pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.

The picture represents a Cape Horner in a great hurricane the half foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast heads.

Tying yourself to the mast is the oldest one, but there are other ones such as locking a credit card away with a key or not bringing junk food into the house so you won't eat it or unplugging your Internet connection so you can use your computer.

And now how gladly would I come down from this mast head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads ME that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to ME, as a pilot of the living God.

And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pour wax in the ears of you and all the men stay with me so that you can't hear the song, and then I'm going to have you tie me to the mast so that I can listen and we can all sail by unaffected.