Canadian pro trucker convoy speaks poignantly on fox news about a sheet being thrown over her business sign by enemies:
https://youtu.be/lgwnJX6lnlg
https://youtu.be/OMpLDUHzSjg
In sailboating, perhaps more so with me as I've experienced an extremely rapid entry into the field (my first sailing experience was January 8th at sailing school, then by the following two weeks I'd already purchased my own sailboat. Only six weeks later I'm sailing my own sailboat and motoring around on it by myself. That's an extremely rapid burst into the sailing world. A lot of folks get initiated a lot slower than that, ie, through they [sic] parents. I recently spoke with a guy from Port Elizabeth South Africa whose parents tied him to the mast as a baby while they raced their racing yacht. Sometimes in life you just have to make things happen for yourself.
Anyway part of mastering sailing is mastering the nomenclature or speech. Therefore it's important to distinguish between a rope when it's just not attached to a sail by rigging, then it's just a line. But when your rope is attached to a sail through the rigging of the boat, ie even if you just tie it on yourself with a bowline knot, once it's tied on, it's not a rope (or line) anymore, it's a sheet. So people will tell you grab the mainsail sheet, they mean grab the rope (line) attached to the mainsail, ie the port side sheet if you want to pull that you'd tack to port. It's something important to realise. That'd be confusing if you're into bondage and stuff I suppose coz you'd be used to tying your girlfriend up on the bedsheets, not sure how that translates into sailboating. Just sayin'
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