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Thread #41245   Message #594826
Posted By: Mark Clark
17-Nov-01 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sailing humor
Subject: RE: BS: Sailing humor
Thanks, Hollowfox. I'll check it out.

I really like these two definitions taken together:

Leeward: Pronounced "Lourdes," or shortened to "loo." The direction in which objects, liquids, and other matter may be thrown without risk of reencountering them in the immediate future.

Passenger: A form of movable internal ballast which tends to accumulate on the leeward side of sailboats once sea motions commence.

      - Mark