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Originally Posted by Peter Ansoff
[...] and "astern" means behind the stern outside of the ship.
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Thank you for the information. Other members of my family sail or sailed but I never learned how and try to stay on dry land as much as possible.
When I read what you wrote about the word "astern", the beginning of the song "High Barbary" suddenly popped into my mind: "Look ahead, look astern, look the weather on the lee" (or something like that).
That song may have been among a set of 78s my father had, sung by those renowned seafarers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.