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Originally Posted by Dartskipper
Three knots?
Let me see, there's a running bowline. (That's when the cut outs dash onto the fo'c'sle head to rig a towing hawser when we run out of bunkers.)
Then there's a rolling hitch, (when we have to heave to in a beam sea.)
And then there's the sheepshank, (that's an older version of a lamb shank.)
No?
Well, I tried.
Perhaps Sir William knows more than three knots.
(This was a quiz, wasn't it?)
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Oh! I think Sir William is familiar with the usual three knots -- as the lady said "You’re knot hard, you’re knot in, and you’re knot getting your money back."
