In my job I've known a few sailors and they do tend to be superstitious,trawlermen used to fish from Fleetwood and you get a lot of ex navy blokes retireing round here, and they told me women are'nt lucky on board ship,I think the bottle bit goes back to the time of Jason and the argonoughts.Whistling for the wind is another one and sea gulls are thought to be the spirits of drowned sailors, |