Had to google that one and it says a "vessel with loosed sheets" or some such. I'm not sure how you get 3 of 'em though. How about "cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey"?
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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