Perhaps his reputation for being a fine seaman was simply talk.

All fine seamen, all with another trade - if that was the right word - at their fingertips.

He was Brian's mate, a fine seaman who maintained a tight discipline over the crew.

A fine seaman and one of the most popular people in the ship.

He was gone - the finest seaman under whom I have ever had the good fortune to sail.

A fine seaman, he was not known as a martinet.

That may have been so; at any rate he was a charming old gentleman, as well as a fine seaman.

Smugglers were fine seamen and perfectly reliable if sent to a foreign station, well away from their old associates.

American, a fine seaman, plenty of initiative and deserves promotion.

Ixion was a good man and a fine seaman.