[Rhodes22-list] Question, non sailing.

[Alan Robertson]

In old days of the square riggers, when a vessel was tacking or coming about, if the sails were not released smartly and the yards braced accordingly , the sails and sheets would flap loosely in a slovenly drunken manner. Thus the expression 3 sheets to the windward sidel rather than to leeward where they should be on the new ship's heading.
Big Al
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael D. Weisner<mailto:mweisner at ebsmed.com> 
  To: The Rhodes 22 mail list<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
  Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Question, non sailing.


  Rob,

  Why is this a non-sailing question?  You said "You're supposed to say you
  remember listing to the song ... "  Listing is definitely a sailing term ;)
  I know many of our times who could have been described as "listing" (or at
  least several sheet to the wind.)

  Mike
  s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
  Nissequogue River, NY

  From: "Rob Lowe" <rlowe at vt.edu<mailto:rlowe at vt.edu>> Monday, October 22, 2007 12:27 PM

  > Ahh, come on Hank.  You're supposed to say you remember listing to the 
  > song
  > in your dorm room while you were smoking something and drinking (Mt. Gay)
  > rum while the stereo was turned up to 11. - rob
  >
  >
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "Hank" <hnw555 at gmail.com<mailto:hnw555 at gmail.com>>
  > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>>
  > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:50 AM
  > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Question, non sailing.
  >
  >
  >> I just entered the lyrics in google and the answer came up very easily.
  >>
  >> Hank
  >>
  >>
  >> On 10/22/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com<mailto:R22RumRunner at aol.com> <R22RumRunner at aol.com<mailto:R22RumRunner at aol.com>> wrote:
  >> >
  >> > Thanks guys. I knew someone on the list would know.
  >> >
  >> > Rummy
  >> >
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