Things I miss!
Being on my boat on the Chesapeake and seeing the "Watermen" doing what they do best. Fishing! Here a waterman is fishing for oysters with a double Patent Tong. He is using only one hence the list to starboard. For the uninitiated that's the right. Remember starboard has more letters than port, as does right to left. Only way I can remember it. These tongs are sunk into the bottom open, like salad tongs, then closed presumably around oysters which are then hoisted aboard and sorted. Long hard work, but they are their own bosses!
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