I've also read "three sheets to the wind" is when a ship was in peril in a storm and could not set an iron anchor (dragged or lost), it would deploy a canvas "sheet" under water in hopes that a prevailing current or sheer drag would keep it off the rocks or other disaster. To set three would have been very unusual and might presage imminent catastrophe. At least that's another interpretation I've read.
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