You're welcome. Sometimes the drivel here gets to me, and I feel the
need to write something a bit more on-topic. I hope some of the lurkers
enjoyed it.

One of these days, I'll put the 1889 and 1948 rules online.

DSK wrote:
Jeff, thanks for an interesting series of posts

Jeff Morris wrote:

..... the rule survived the 1948 re-write, since clearly the days of
windjammers was over by then. However, many of the mariners then did
have square rigged experience - My father-in-law, who was in the
Merchant Marine in WWII served under a captain who had round Cape Horn
a number of times in square rigged ships.