A Conversation for The Beaufort Wind Scale

A Sailor's View

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Steve K.

From "Sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary" by Beard & McKie, 1981:

"Cyclone: Technical name for storms. Mariners use a universal measure of the severity of storms, called the Beaufort scale, which classifies sea conditions for sailors. The categories - or 'forces' - are: 1. No wind at all. 2. Too little wind. 3. Too much wind. 4. Much too much wind. 5. Wind, wind, wind - whoooeee, will it ever stop blowing?; and 6. Blammo!" smiley - skull


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Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant

Inmy research, I used a number of print, non-print, and web resources.


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Post 3

Steve K.

I doubt if you ran across "Sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary" as I think its out of print. Too bad, this is the book William F. Buckley, Jr. calls "quite simply, the funniest book I've ever read." High praise from a sailing author who has some pretty funny books under his belt.

You may have run across "Fastnet: Force 10" about a yacht race off the coast of England a decade or two back that became disastrous in a version of a "perfect storm".


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Mr. Christopher, enjoying the Magicians Guild game where he is called Polonius Franc, Elder Healer and local merchant

I used a series of institution-issue textbooks from public and school libraries.


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