[Sca-cooks] Citrus, Scurvy and The Royal Navy

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
 >
> > I'm wondering why they would do that?  Unless they had heard rumors that
> citrus juice caused some
> > kind of ill-effect, or something of that nature, I can't see why they
> would have refused to try
> > it.  I mean, what did they have to lose?  If it worked, great!!  If it
> didn't, it's no
> > matter....business as usual I suppose.  It couldn't hurt, right?
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > William de Grandfort
> 
> Probably, if they refused, it would come down to money. Why would these
> skippers necessarily want to spend money out of their pockets on a "maybe"?
> Keep in mind, they worked on shares, usually, and if the ship owners didn't
> approve of a particular expense, then it would come out of their own
> profits.
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
>

That sounds like a reasonable explanation.  I think that if I were in the same boat (pun intended)
I'd probably want a bit of assurance before I chucked my shilling into the pot, too.

William de Grandfort

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Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


		
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