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Originally Posted by Surfesq
By the way Rich are you saying that you have bigger stones than me because you fell off your boat? I am confused by your point.
As for brass balls, without looking it up. I think it has to do with heat. Didn't American sailors in the 1800's or something like that say, "It's hot enough to melt the face off a brass monkey?" I think I read that somewhere.
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Actually, it is the opposite; at least the way I heard it. A brass monkey was the frame that was at the bottom of the pyramid of cannonballs stored on deck on an old squarerigger. When it got cold enough, the brass would actually contract enough to pop the cannonballs out of their rest and roll across the deck. That way, you "froze the balls off a brass monkey."
Also, the first of four boats I owned was an old Chrysler Mutineer daysailor. I liked hanging off the rail and seeing the centerboard ghosting under the water. Does that qualify?
In fact, once on Sarasoata Bay, I thought I hit a turtle, but it was actually the centerboard breaking off at the hull from the stress.
My dad and I bought the Mutineer about 1979 for $1500. I tore the centerboard trunk apart and glassed the centerboard back together and sold it to a Scotsman for $500 about 1994.
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