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Chekhov's Skill: Alice easily figures out how to pilot the Chronosphere due to her being skilled in sailing ships as a captain.
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Also, a fringe case of Viewers Are Geniuses: the poop deck, on an old sailing ship, was a restricted-access area where only very senior sailors such as the captain, pilot, navigator and senior bosuns had automatic access: an Informed Attribute that marks Popeye down as a senior sailor.
Source: Comic Strip / Popeye
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Sailing and Pilot. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pilot/sailing
Pilot & Sailing. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/pilot/sailing>.
Sailing or Pilot. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/pilot/sailing.
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