Boat guest

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Boat guests rowing

Boat guest (plural: boat guests ) is an old name for a sailor on board a rowing boat.

Its mission is at Belt (rowing) to pullen (rowing).

Today the term is also used for helpers on (motor) lifeboats.

Individual evidence

  1. See: Carl Dick, Otto Kretschmer: Handbuch der Seemannschaft. 2nd part. 2nd, revised edition. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1899.