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A winter night in the captain's cabin
This captain's cabin on a sailing ship is free to play in your browser and keeps you company on a winter night at sea. A lantern hangs from the low beams above the table. Beyond the stern windows, the dark sea rushes past, muffled by thick planks.
The walls creak in a slow rhythm as the hull leans one way, then the other. The lantern chain clinks on its hook, and bottles chime softly in their rack. High above, the wind sings in the rigging.
You unroll a stiff chart across the table, and the paper crackles under your hands. Your quill scratches a few lines into the log. Then, from below deck, a squeezebox starts a slow sea song. The winter night outside is cold and black, but in here you feel at home.
To hear the ship without the song, choose Without music. For a wild night with bigger waves and louder wind, choose Rough sea.
What you hear in this captain's cabin
- Sea past the stern windows: The sea rushes and sloshes against the hull just outside, muffled by thick wooden planks. Plays all the time.
- Cabin timbers creaking: The walls and beams of the cabin creak softly and slowly as the ship rolls. Plays all the time.
- Wind in the rigging: Up on deck, the wind sings in the ropes, rising and falling, with a faint flutter of canvas. Plays all the time.
- Hanging lamp on its chain: The iron lamp sways on its chain with soft metal creaks and clinks. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Quill writing: A quill pen scratches across paper as a new entry goes into the log. Plays at random moments, about 3 times every 10 minutes.
- Bottles clinking in the rack: Glass bottles in a wooden rack chime softly against each other whenever the ship leans. Plays at random moments, about 3 times every 10 minutes.
- Chart unrolled on the table: A large, stiff paper chart is unrolled and smoothed flat on the table with a broad, crackling rustle. Plays at random moments, about 3 times every 10 minutes.
- Squeezebox below deck: A slow sea shanty on an old squeezebox with a fiddle, played softly below deck and muffled by the planks. Plays all the time.
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