| Summary: | placentia paymaster Only slightly less funny than nicknaming the main boom on a banking schooner the "Placentia Paymaster." This arose from the hilarious custom of some captains from that town who arranged for the boom to swing around while homeward bound knocking a crewman or two over the side so that their share of the voyage might be diverted to other sources. [at _second hand_, I have a report of the use of this term on a recent CBC television programme, an independent witness to Ray Guy's cites] [Les Harris, our resident expect on P.B. terms, does not know it.] PRINTED ITEM GMS Jan 76 Not used Not used Withdrawn
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