Thank you for the reminders. I am not a sailor, but when I went to a boat show in the Chesapeake Bay, I was talking with a woman who was on board a restored sailing ship, sometimes called a "tall ship." As the conversation went on, I mentioned the old superstition that it was bad luck to have a woman on a ship, and she replied that on the high seas all the men were naked. This caught me off guard. I didn't know what to say next.
I also read that when men sail nude, they somehow can navigate using their testicles. Never an explanation of how that works, but I found it intriguing. That might be why they sailed naked.
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