Fortunately, it takes a pretty strong wind to blow people away. (Although I've sailed with some I wouldn't have minded if they just got swept away...)
Loose stuff on a ship, if not blown away, is just potentially dangerous, as we found out in Nova Scotia with a green crew who didn't understand what "lash everything down" meant. The pans in the galley threatened to take off the heads of the 1st mate and my future husband.
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