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Keelhauling Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/12/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Well, a picture says a thousand words?

Sorry, I just wish I could make the picture bigger.

For my 50th Geocache I thought I would give you something interesting to find.

This is the 1st cache in my new “woodlands” series.

Keelhauling is the Dutch word "to drag along the keel", it was a form of punishment meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line that looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern). As the hull was usually covered in barnacles and other marine growth, if the offender was pulled quickly, keelhauling would typically result in serious cuts, loss of limbs and even decapitation. If the victim was dragged slowly, his weight might lower him sufficiently to miss the barnacles, but this method would frequently result in his drowning.

Well, I hope you have got the picture of what to do to get this cache.

Please be gentle with this apparatus. When using/pulling the chain pull it from both directions to take up the slack then jiggle it a bit. The cache can come out either end of the tube. Join the dots once you have signed the log.

xxxxxx FTF xxxxxx Colleda xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnzbhsyntrq gjvaf?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)