"Eight bells" is a salutary way of saying that a fellow sailor's Great Watch is over. It's both tribute to a life spent sailing and nautical euphemism for "died."
The SYC bell is from the Queen Mary
In Memory
Joel Kudler
Jim Morse
Ken Richards
Peter Braal
George Sugarman Swift
Nancy DeBruyn
John Ford
Sandra Finney
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