"What about the old sea captain you were going to get to go with us?"
He was the son of a sea captain and a school teacher.
The old sea captain was well known in the neighborhood.
A sea captain's desk took up nearly half the room.
Then everybody looked at the sea captain, wondering what he would do.
He is 87 and a sea captain like his grandfather.
From inside the room he could hear his wife struggling with the sea captain.
Five were built by sea captains from 1824 to 1854.
Her father had worked as a sea captain, and then became a merchant.
He felt like an ancient sea captain going down with his ship.