he sphere of activity on the part of the Preventive Water-guard was
thus by the year 1819 considerably curtailed, and from the
instructions which were now issued to the Inspecting Commanders we can
see how the rest of the coastline other than that section just
considered was dealt with. Each station consisted of one chief
officer, one chief boatman, two commissioned boatmen, and four
established boatmen. There was a six-oared boat with her rudder and
wash-boards--"wash-streaks" they are officially called--a five-fathom
rope as a light painter, eight good ash oars, two boat-hooks. She was
a sailing craft, for she was provided with a fore-mast, main-mast, and
mizzen-mast, with "haul-yards," travellers, down-hauls, sheets, &c.
Her canvas consisted of foresail, mainsail, and mizzen with a yard for
each. She carried also a jib, the casks for water and provisions, a
boat's "bittacle" (= binnacle), with compass and lamp. She was further
furnished with a couple of creeping irons for getting up the
smugglers' kegs, a grapnel, a chest of arms and ammunition, the Custom
House Jack and spy-glass as already mentioned.

This vessel was rigged as a three-masted lugger with a jib. There is
no mention of a bowsprit, so either one of the oars or a boat-hook
would have to be employed for that purpose. In addition to this larger
boat there was also on the station a light four-oared gig fitted with
mast, yard (or "spreet"), a 7 lb. hand lead, 20 fathoms of line for
the latter, as well as ballast bags to fill with stones or sand. If
the established crews were inadequate during emergency extra men could
be hired. The boats were painted twice a year, but "always to be
completed before the bad weather sets in, and the colours to be
assimilated as near as possible to those used by the natives and
smugglers which frequent the coast which are least conspicuous."

If any of the established boatmen intermarried with families of
notorious smugglers the Inspecting Commander was to send information
to the Controller-General. Furthermore, no one was to be appointed to
any station within twenty miles of his place of birth or within twenty
miles of the place where he had resided for six months previous to
this appointment.

The name, colour, rig, and other description of any vessel about to
depart on a smuggling trip or expected to arrive with contraband goods
on the coast were to be given by the Inspecting Commander both to the
admirals commanding the