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George and Bill:

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, George Huxtable wrote:

> >> It normally stays trailing from the taffrail unless
> >> I feel the need to
> >> trail a mackerel line,
>
> Bill responded-
>
> >Enlighten me, what is a mackerel line?  Fishing?
>
> ==================
>
> I think Bill must have led a somewhat sheltered life.
> Don't Mackerel exist
> in US waters? Perhaps they go by another name there.
> Perhaps Bill does his
> navigation in fresh water?

Mackrel exists in (some) Lafayette (where Bill, lives)
supermarkets:-)
Very tasty, injdeed.


> They are despised, to some extent,

Not by me:-)

> superstitions, would never eat mackerel
> describing them as "scavengers of
> the sea" and asserting that they "ate drowned sailors".

That I did not know:-(

But the original question was about the "Mackrel LINE",
not about the Mackrel itself.
From your (George) description I conclude that this is
something replacing a log?

Alex.

   

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