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Tinkerntom
 
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BCITORGB wrote:
Tink:
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Landlubbers call them ropes, they're called lines! TnT
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Sorry to disappoint, sailors call them sheets.

Wilf


And then there are painters!

Somewhere I say a website that described all the different lines with
their corresponding names on a 4-masted ship. Pretty amazing.

Of course being land locked and icebound will make a land lubber out of
most sane men. Hopefully for KMAN's sake the ice melts soon! TnT