Sunday, January 6, 2013

"CAMELS" sailing lingo

I am reading C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series and in "Commodore Hornblower" the intrepid hero uses camels to move two ships to shallow water. No, these are not the big ugly critters with humps on their backs. Can you guess the nautical meaning?

Mike

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