# Sails — Two Years Before the Mast character guide

> Sails in Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr..

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

The sailmaker on the Pilgrim, an old and experienced hand.

## In the story

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xxviii)

The sailmaker offers cynical advice to Chips, recounting his own experience of being abandoned by his wife.

### [Homeward Bound: Preparations and Anticipation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xxx)

The sailmaker is taken with palsy early in the voyage, leaving the crew even more short-handed.

### [Twenty-Four Years After](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/twenty-four-years-after)

Old boatswain's mate from the Alert; met again on a line-of-battle ship, remarried, living near the navy yard.

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