That's great info about Tim Reilly, Marc! Thanks.

I'm not sure what you're meaning to say, however, about Stan Hugill being there and not saying anything. Does this suggest something to you...is it evidence of something? One can only assume you are suggesting that this style of doing it got tacit "approval" from Hugill (< a seal of quality and/or authenticity??). But that would contradict a lot of other things, so I don't get it.

I also don't know what you mean by Tim "invested a considerable amount of time explaining to me how it worked." Do you mean how to pull to it? How much time would that take? Did he say you should pull during the silence (which is what people were doing)? Why would there be a need to explain—aren't halyard chanties pretty self-explanatory? I can't think of any at the moment that have the crew pulling on a "rest." And is the need to take lots of time to explain it indicative of something...perhaps that it *was* unorthodox? How does this fit in with the "Stan didn't correct it" observation?