As someone without a bit of sea salt in me (but my wife always yells at me for using too much salt!!
) .....I have really enjoyed this thread and learned a lot on these seagoing items!
Thanks so much for the fascinating discussion guys!! If I may say so, really good 'research legs' (cf. sea legs!).
It does seem like in some of the really salty old classic movies I've seen guys get 'bonked' (probably not very good sea lingo) with these in some of the onboard scraps.