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TRIVIA: More than half the world's population lives within 60 miles of a coastline.
Have you ever wondered about those cute pom-poms on winter toques? It turns out
they had a practical purpose in the days of wooden ships, when French sailors
used to wear hats with pom-poms to protect their heads from injury on the low
ceilings of ship during rough weather.
When I was a young sailor, I knew everything.
Now that I'm old, I know nothing.
Mile (Nautical): A relative measure of surface
distance over water - in theory, 6076.1 feet. In practice, a number of
different values for the nautical mile have been observed while under sail,
for example: after 4 p.m., approximately 40,000 feet; in winds of less
than 5 knots, about 70,000 feet; and during periods of threatening weather
in harbor approaches, around 100,000 feet.
Hazard:
1. Any boat over 2 feet in length.
2. The skipper of any such craft.
3. Any body of water.
4. Any body of land within 100 yards of any body of water.
Sailing: The fine art of getting wet and becoming
ill, while going nowhere slowly at great expense.
Horizons: If your eyes are 20 feet above the water,
you will be able to see 5 miles across the water. That also means you
will be able to see the eyes of another person that is 10 miles away
that is also 20 feet above the water.
Porthole:
A glass-covered opening in the hull
designed in such a way that when closed (while at sea) it admits light and
water, and when open (while at anchor) it admits, light, air, and insects
(except in Canadian waters, where most species are too large to gain entry
in this manner).
Sailor's Syndrome:
A medical condition known as nautical narcosis. Its symptoms include an inability to use common words, such as up, down, left, right, front, and back – instead using a variety of gibberish which the sufferer believes to make sense; a love of small, dark, wet places; an obsessive desire to be surrounded by possessions of a nautical nature, such as lamps made from running lights and tiny ship's wheels; and a conviction that objects are moving when they are in fact standing still. This condition is incurable.
A medical condition known as nautical narcosis. Its symptoms include an inability to use common words, such as up, down, left, right, front, and back – instead using a variety of gibberish which the sufferer believes to make sense; a love of small, dark, wet places; an obsessive desire to be surrounded by possessions of a nautical nature, such as lamps made from running lights and tiny ship's wheels; and a conviction that objects are moving when they are in fact standing still. This condition is incurable.
