Dave, Thanks for the Heads Up (pun intended) on the Falconer's info .. LOL I do have the Internet Link. Ain't it a great site ? Yes, I did know about the copies available.. I read somewhere that there's only a couple museum copies of the original of Falconer's. I would guess Priceless.
If I could only find a New copy of Falconer's for 65 bucks I'd grab it.. The best I've been able to find is around $150. With shipping it'd run around $200 plus.. I'm too cheap to spend that much (yet). It was available on a CD a couple years ago. I should get one of those I guess. But I love the touch and feel of a Book. And besides, it's faster to flip pages and find what I'm looking for in a hurry.. ;-) No wife. Thanks a bunch for the info Ralph Ahseln 'Oblio' Gresham OR ----- Original Message ----- From: David Shaddock To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:01 AM Subject: catalina27-talk: The poop on Falconer's Ralph, we're all adebt to ye. I had read on a website pertaining to the 'heads' (which the British still use in plural form when referring to a toilet aboard) that the bow, or heads, of the boat was easiest to clean because of the oncoming bow wave water-sort of a regular intermittent flushing. By the way, it seems that Falconer's Maritime Dictionary was updated a bit and republished in 1815 as "Universal Dictionary of Marine Terminology". Not only is that available (in some cases as low as $65), there's an internet link to an Aussie site that has the entire thing on the web: http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/contents.html . In there, you can look up anything by alphabetical order, and find out things like the original spelling of taffrail is taffarel or TAFFAREL, (couronnement, Fr. ) the upper part of a ship's stern, being a curved piece of wood, expressed by F F, in fig. I. plate X. and usually ornamented, with sculpture. You prob'ly knew this-but maybe your wife did and hasn't seen fit to tell you yet. <grin> Dave Shaddock
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