bosun's chair

He gradually picked up the skills of a steeplejack and used a Bosun's chair to suspend himself from a rope to carry out work.

"When racing there is no time to set up the bosun's chair therefore the bow person must wear their climbing safety gear at all times."

Ossie was just 11 when the War finished but he can still remember seeing his mother slung over the side of a ship on a bosun's chair with cables wrapped around her as she welded something on to a ship at Walker Naval Yard.

"I did `high' work," she says, "because most of the men couldn't stand working up that high--like hanging over the ship in a bosun's chair, welding.

The top will be too high to reach once the third shutter is fixed, so subsequent stages will have to be reached from a bosun's chair suspended with a half-inch rope from a winch.

He rigged a bosun's chair on a pulley which he slung over a wire which ran over hydro lines and flew off into the night like Peter Pan.

Now I am back in the metaphorical bosun's chair it is heartening to see the waterfront thriving evermore.

Engineers will be working from a bosun's chair to remove the hands from the three clock faces to enable them to be cleaned and repainted, and the clock faces to be regilded.