Acts 27:19

we cast out with our own hands The oldest MSS., with R. V.read "They cast out with their &c." which is much more likely than that the writer of the narrative, even if he were a fellow-traveller with St Paul in this voyage, was employed in such a work, which is pre-eminently that which the sailors alone would undertake.

the tackling (Gk. furniture). The word is closely akin to that used in Acts 27:17 for "gear." As that signified all that could be spared from aloft, so this seems to mean all that could be removed from the deck or the hull of the vessel.