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15-10-17, 14:38

Ed Landstrom Ed Landstrom is offline

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Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

Weren't sails called 'sheets' on wind powered naval vessels, hence the phrase "three sheets to the wind"?

I think your Citadel friend may have been an army dude, I don't think 250 rounds of Vickers makes anything close to nine yards. Maybe in metric it does??

(aside, ain't Halifax the greatest place on earth?)

"Sheets" are the ropes that control the sails, not the sails themselves (at least in modern sailing vessels .)

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