Crash! A wave broke over the bows, and watwer flew over he cabin roof and onto the children in the cockpit. Roger was thrown into the bottom of the cockpit and did not even try to get up. Up the Goblin came, her bows pointing to the sky, then down again, and another wave thundered over the ship. In the cockpit hey were knee-deep in water. John, white-faced and desperate, fought with the tiller and tried to steer against a sea and a wind that were too strong for him.