If the ship is lying against a dock wall it is alongside and the seaman crosses a brow from the dock to the ship and he is then on board and on deck, or on board and between decks if the brow leads into the ship below the weather deck; in either case he is inboard the moment he comes over the side.
Xa inqanawe ilele chaseneyo nedonga ledokisi isecaleni, indoda yolwandle inqumla ungqameko ukusukela kwidokisi ukuya kwinqanawa, emveni koko usebhodini nakwidekhi, okanye kwibhodi naphakathi kwedekhixa ungqameko lukhokelela kwinqanawa nagphantsi kwemozulu yedekhi ngokwelinye uhlobo ukwibhodi ngexeshana esiza kwelinye icala.