Aft torpedoes.

Firing aft thrusters.

Attention. Recovering spacecraft aft.

Repeat. Recovering spacecraft aft.

Aft shields at 50 .

Protect our aft cannons.

Aft cannons are down!

We just lost aft cannons.

This ship has minimal aft weapons.

Does this thing have aft torpedoes?

Steady, sir. Mast head ahoy!

The aft cannon's on line... just barely.

So let me draw ourselves a mast.

Lieutenant... aft thrusters at onehalf until we clear Spacedock.

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 aft launcher's still offline, and Father wants me to fix...

And another one comes and slaps the aft and knocks it down.

I need a full spread, fore and aft. Mr Stevens, more cartridges.

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.

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.

Send an armed detail to meet me... in the midpoint promenade deck causeway, C level. Approach from the aft.

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.

Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.

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.