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Originally Posted by Gazza
Steve, it's for the same reason that whistling is bad luck in theatres. It's all to do with the rigging/flies. Riggers on ship and flymen in theatres used to use a system of whistles to alert others to rope/weight movements/lifting/dropping/unfurling and other dangers.
Recreational whistling got in the way and muddled the messages!
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Maybe riggers when they were fitting out the ship. But once it was all completed and was sailing then the Bosun's call was used to pipe various instructions. Recreational whistling wouldn't get in the way of one of those.
Anyway, the "whistling up the wind" reason was what I was told when sailing offshore with RN personnel and when doing various courses at RN shore stations
Steve
06-06-2008, 05:05 PM
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