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Subject: Re: TWL: for the good of the order
From: Glenn Williams (glennwaus@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:50:22 EST
Wes.
To weigh something is to ascertain it's weight. Right?
The term to weigh anchor came from those mythic days of sail when a bunch of
the boys tramped around a capstan feeling the weight of the anchor as they
hauled it up.
I'm with Zeke.
Cheers
Glenn Williams
"Stirling" Universal 36
Port Phillip
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wesley Eldred" <weldred@XXX.XXX>
To: "TWL" <trawler-world-list@XXX.XXX>
Sent: 02 March, 2002 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: TWL: for the good of the order
> Zeke:
>
> "Weigh" is a vaiant form of "way" and, since one "weighs anchor" before
> one can move one's vessel, I view "under weigh" as an fully acceptable
> nautical turn of speech.
>
> My opinion only
>
> Wesley
> weldred@XXX.XXX
>
> Zeke Anderson wrote:
> >
> > For the good of the order.... it's underway, not under weigh. As long as
> > we're here, lose is not to win, loose is not fastened down.
> >
> > Fire Away!!
> >
> > Zeke Anderson
> > Kerrville, TX
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