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To: TEXOKIE

A boom is also on sailing vessels. It is what knocks people overboard/unconscious on a sailboat when it comes about.


794 posted on 03/04/2018 11:49:42 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Sometimes we may be taking things too literally/making it more complicated when keeping it simple is the answer.

Anybody 'famous/infamous' die in a boating/sailing incident...er...I mean accident very recently?

801 posted on 03/04/2018 11:56:31 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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A boom is also on sailing vessels. It is what knocks people overboard/unconscious on a sailboat when it comes about.

Also on freighters.....using their booms to load/unload cargo

Boom-Docks etc.

811 posted on 03/04/2018 12:08:16 PM PST by spokeshave (FBI = Feral Bureau of Insurrection)
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LOL! it does for sure!


831 posted on 03/04/2018 12:44:30 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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