Yes, I have been inconsistent her as of late with my WOD’s. For some crazy reason the aviation industry is not in a down turn so work has kept me rather busy. But, I figured I would sneak one in before the weekend.

The origin is from old Scottish, or Gaelic. Scone meant to skip, much like a flat stone is skipped across the water. It is used to describe small, fast vessels with broad, fin-like sails that stretched fore and aft when rigged, instead of the more traditional ones that went from side-to-side of a ship.

It is reported that it began when Captain Andrew Robinson built the first vessel of this type in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1713. At the time of her launching and first sea-trial in the harbor, a Scottish by-stander exclaimed, "Oh, how she 'Scoons'!".

Captain Robinson took up the remark and applied it to all later vessels of this type. The spelling is also reported to be based on how the word, 'school' is spelled, which has the same pronunciation.

And that fellas is what salty sailors call a no bull sea story.