Keeping A Weather Eye:

You’re on dog watch. 👀

Five differences. Can you find them all?

I pictured myself at 3am, soaked, watching a cloud change shape.


Because someone asked me to “keep a weather eye out” for them. 😜


I hear it every week in my line of work.


Keeping you on my radar for the right role.


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For centuries, before radar and forecasts, survival came down to one man on watch.


Staring at the horizon for the single detail nobody else would notice.


🌥️ a shift in the cloud

🕯️ a change in the light

🌊 the sea gone too quiet


Spot it early and you had time to reef the sails.


Miss it, and the storm had you.


That was keeping a weather eye… and the catchphrase behind the image.


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Spot the difference style image, two nearly identical photos stacked vertically, both showing Jason Nangle in a navy suit and open collar shirt, standing in a wooden crow's nest on a tall ship and holding brass binoculars up to his eyes. Rigging, ropes and a lit lantern surround him, with a dark, stormy sky and choppy sea behind, and two small ships visible in the distance. Text between the photos reads

Two versions made it ashore.


🫵 Keep a weather eye ON someone…

Means you don’t trust him.


👍 Keep a weather eye OUT for someone…

Means you’re watching for something worth them having.


One watching for danger. 

The other watching for opportunity.


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OOWs, you’re on dog watch. 👀


Five differences. Can you find them all?


Only an able hand will spot the fifth.


Angle Recruitment... Keeping a weather eye on the maritime market, so you don’t have to.


Fun Facts


⚓️ "Weather" is old sailing language for the windward side.

The side the wind's coming from, as opposed to "lee". Keeping a weather eye meant watching that side, not the sky in general.


⚓️ A storm often gave itself away hours before it hit.

A shift in cloud, a change in wind, the sea going strangely flat. Miss the signs and you'd be caught with too much sail up.


⚓️ It was never really about eyesight.

The best lookouts worked as much off feel and experience as what they could actually see.

Maritime Origins is a weekly storytelling series exploring the sea-born origins of phrases we still use on land, along with the lesser-known stories, legends and characters that shaped maritime culture.


Created by Jason Nangle, founder of Angle Recruitment,  a global maritime recruitment and executive search firm.


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