Posted by Tom Napier on May 08, 2012 at 12:26:48 user Didymus.
In Reply to: Re: S&A 1974 Film - a retrospective view posted by Peter Hyland on May 08, 2012 at 09:03:05:
For what it's worth, Chapman Piloting, the standard U.S. small boat handbook, insists that a "tackle" is pronounced "tay-kle." A tackle has two blocks each containing one or more sheaves which Chapman suggests are called "shivs." (I know what a shiv is and I wouldn't expect to find one on a small boat.)
As an ex-pat Brit I wonder whether these pronunciations are known in Britain. I've never heard them in the U.S.