Mornin'! It's 65° in Wildwood. We've got bright blue skies; sun's up; breeze is blowing in; salt is in the air and it couldn't be any more lovely this start of yet another (4th consecutive) weekend at the shore. It'll be sunny just be tapping the 70° mark and a bit breezy again (great "linens-on-the-clothesline" day) coming off the Sea (NE-ENE at 15-20mph with 25+mph gusts). Remember those winds do cause rip currents so be mindful of where you're dipping and stay near a lifeguard. (read my post from a couple days ago). Tomorrow for Father's Day it's looking pretty much the same albeit a tad cooler and a few clouds thrown in the mix. Still a real nice one though.
High tide:6:30p.m.
Low tide:12noonOcean temp:67°
Sunset:8:28p.m.
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Sheets are on the line!
3 sheets to the wind (and now you know):
We ignorant landlubbers might think that a sheet is a sail, but it’s actually a rope (always called a line in sailing terminology), or sometimes on really big ships a chain, which is attached to the bottom corner of a sail. The word actually comes from an Old English term for the corner of a sail. The sheets were as vital in the days of three-masted square-rigged sea-going ships as they are today, since they trim the sail to the wind. If they run loose, the sail flutters about in the wind and the ship wallows off its course out of control.
Extend this idea to sailors on shore leave, staggering back to the ship after a good night on the town, well tanked up. The irregular and uncertain locomotion of these jolly tars must have reminded onlookers of the way a ship moved in which the sheets were loose. Perhaps one loose sheet might not have been enough to get the image across, so the speakers borrowed the idea of a three-masted sailing ship with three sheets loose, so the saying became three sheets in the wind.
love the photos but it's all sloppy and all over the place. clean it up, sis!
posted in the wrong spot, sorry.
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