Cruising Helmsman

CLICK-CLICK OR SWISH-SWISH?

DURING my investigations into when chain was first used for anchor rodes, I meandered down an interesting side track that might even be worth a short note in CH.

My explorations took me to an old academic paper from 1963 by underwater archaeologist Honor Frost. In it she describes the following: in Lebanon in the 1950s, fishers searching for

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