Our ship has 10 km/6 miles of rope rigging of various sizes, and a new crew member’s first task when coming aboard is to learn the name of each one and what it does (in Spanish of course, although “brioles” to me sounds more like a pastry one would order along with fancy coffee at Starbucks than the name of the small lines that hold the sail to the spar.) And where do you think the expression, “oh that new guy on the job? He’s still learning the ropes” comes from? Anyway a former captain gave Jaye the responsibility of making sure all the lines were correctly coiled and stored after each evolution. Only between former captain’s imperfect English and Jaye’s imperfect Spanish, the new job title came out “Mistress of the Ropes,” which is definitely a good porn star name, but perhaps not so much a good job title!
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