[Alberg30] 5 gallon bucket

[chrishardy]

the original story is told in singlehanded sailing by henderson   chris

George Dinwiddie wrote:

>>chrishardy said:
>>
>>Reminds me of a plan in progress of getting myself up the mast by 
>>attaching the halyard to a five gallon bucket and throwing it overboard 
>>while underway  I'm still working on the details of the trip line and 
>>other minor stuff I'll let you know how it works  chris
>>
>
>Chris,
>
>I've heard of this before, but I can't find the reference.  Maybe
>it was in a magazine.  Anyway, the story was somewhat similar to
>this one (various tellings):
>  http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/bricks.htm
>  http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/work/bricklayer-song.html
>  http://www.scotsfolk.com/corries/Corries%20Stovies/12The%20Corries%20-%20Track%2012.mp3
>
>Anyway, be sure to convert knots to feet-per-second before attempting
>this.
>
> - George
>

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