"Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message
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Gord Beaman wrote:

What are you? Landlubbers? Its a sailing ship! The wind goes from the
stern
(the back end) to the bow (the front end)

Of course, one would suppose that there's several red faces
hereabouts eh wot?

Why, pray tell, Gord?

This is r.*aviation*.m.n.

a) I challenge you to name one sailing vessel which ever
operated aircraft [excepting, if needed, the possible usage of
tethered balloons in the War of Northern Aggression].

While the Northerner's navy did use balloons for spotting
blockade runners, I believe they were operated from
barges. The barges were tended/protected/tolled by sailing
ships but the two kept that step apart.
All that rigging a sail requires kind of cuts down on the
open space a balloon requires to operate.