OT: Weighty Question

Bill,

Google is our friend! A stone is 14 pounds. That would put our dear Capt. Aubrey in the 238-266 lb range.

Dean

Dean

OK Britain what's a 'stone' in pounds? I'm plowing through an O'Brian novel and find that Capt. Aubrey weighs

Bill Banaszak, MFE

"You're a whole lotta woman weighing in at nineteen stone..."

Whole Lotta Rosie

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

And it takes 12 rocks to equal one stone. A rock is equal to 28 pebbles.

;-) Ed "Democrats have spilled more oratory and convinced less voters than any party I know of, outside the Socialists." "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" -- Will Rogers

Fourteen pounds.

bon rules! acdc, yeah! (the 16 year old in me cheers.)

Still, Onslow might have fit the part better than Russell Crowe. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

The question of Aubrey's weight is subject to much debate. But I think you will find it changes and fluctuates quite dramatically throughout the 20 books. Sometimes Aubrey gets quite lean...due to stress or privations at sea. He isn't always fat. But I would say he is a big beefy man....as many men were in those days. Even the definition of 'Stones' is open to question. Stones have not always been standardized. In fact standardization of weight is a relatively recent thing. But stones at the time of the books were actually more usually 12 pounds...not fourteen.

Just what I was wondering. Thanks.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

How can you use pounds to weigh someone - to us they are meaningless

Stones or kg I can handle

If pounds get mentioned in a US author book I am converting them!

Sterling idea!

Bill Banaszak, MFE :)