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The Jolly Roger or Jolie Rouge
December 2001 Half-starved and adrift in a leaking boat, did Columbus eat a last meal of turtle and coconuts before cutting his losses and heading for home? Fact: The International Shark Attack File maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History estimates that the odds of dying by lightning in the United States are more than 30 times greater than from a shark attack. In 2000, confirmed shark attacks throughout the world reached 79 last year.
So it's an old joke, but hey, it makes this sailorgirl laugh....
Fact... Hurricanes are tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin (Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico) and in the Pacific east of the International Date Line. Typhoons are tropical cyclones over the northern Pacific west of the date line. Tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and over the Indian Ocean are just called cyclones. |
The Sailorgirl Handy
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Trivia: When Ponce de Leon of Spain discovered these seven islands in 1513, he named them Las Tortugas because of the abundance of sea turtles. The name was changed to Dry Tortugas to warn sailors of the lack of fresh water. The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Sea Breeze would be lost... A 35 kilometre day sail takes four months. Sailors and rum go together like wine and cheese, like Captain Ahab and Moby Dick, like England and the Queen, like....well, you get my point. It all began in the Carribean with the British Navy. Of course, they found out rather quickly that giving a lot of rum to sailors caused just a wee bit of discipline problems. So they tried to solve this by watering down the rum. Hence, "Grog" came into being. Read the history of grog.
What the heck is it really? And how do I not get it?  Chewing
the Fat "God made the vittles, but the devil made the cook," was a popular saying used by seafaring men in the last century when salted beef was staple diet aboard ship. This tough cured beef, suitable only for long voyages when nothing else was as cheap or would keep as well, required prolonged chewing to make it edible. Men often chewed one chunk for hours, just as if it were chewing gum and referred to this practice as "chewing the fat".
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"We are not pirates, but men who want to live for the Freedom that
God and Nature gave us, without surrendering to anybody". 
Just
call me Iron Charity Flint....
Ever
wonder where bananas came from? Wonder no more. 
