Abbreviations - AWB

[Squeaky]

Good evening:

I have noticed this abbreviation a number of times and can't figure what the heck it means.

I have managed to figure out many of the others but this one eludes me. Makes me feel like a child listening to my elders discuss a weighty subject which I am meant to understand

Could someone please advise translation.

Cheers

Squeaky

 

[Judders]

Two versions:

Average White Boat

or

Another White Boat

 

[Searush]

and MAB is mauldy auld boat - usually refers to a "timeless wooden classic"

 

[sailorman]

M.A.B

as the more discerning have of us have

 

[jonjo]

and MAB is mauldy auld boat

I read it as M for Manky, but mauldy fits as well.

 

[BurnitBlue]

There is a third meaning. AWB is A W@nkers Boat. This is unkind and i am only passing it on for your complete education. A W@nkers boat is owned by someone who cannot manage the real thing. In other words, it can be likened to a moped that is not allowed on the motorway.

Being a man of simple mind I still don't understand that allusion but as I say, I feel that I must pass on this information.

Ok I have already got my coat on.

 

[tokenjam]

I wondered the same thing, doesn't it mean All Weather Boat - whatever that means

 

[Wunja]

I think only the RNLI refer to AWB as All Weather Boat

 

[Doghousekeeper]

I think only the RNLI refer to AWB as All Weather Boat

I think the RNLI use ALB (All-Weather Life Boat) and ILB (Inshore Life Boat)

 

[Wunja]

I think the RNLI use ALB (All-Weather Life Boat) and ILB (Inshore Life Boat)

Thanks for your correction. I was basing my reply on a comment made on Seaside Rescue (not the most reliable of sources I admit.) A quick Google on 'RNLI' and 'AWB' returned many hits from websites of local RNLI groups where the meaning was All Weather Boat. On the parent site only Rhyl seem to have been forced to use a BenJenBav. Poor dears!
Rhyl crew

 

[Twister_Ken]

ME!

I claim to have been the first to use both the term and the acronym, way back when. So there.

Inspiration (if you can call it that) from the Average White Band.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

AWB = All White Blob

 

[pessimist]

Auld w@nkers bathtub

 

[Skylark]

Perhaps I've been misled?

and all of this time I thought it meant.......

A very nice vessel built of contemporary materials to a contemporay design, usually, but not always, having a White hull, owned by those having the view that the sea is a Broad church with room for all, together in perfect harmony.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Well, a broad transom, if not a broad church.

 

[SlowlyButSurely]

Yes completely misled...

and all of this time I thought it meant.......

A very nice vessel built of contemporary materials to a contemporay design, usually, but not always, having a White hull, owned by those having the view that the sea is a Broad church with room for all, together in perfect harmony.

Here's a simpler definition to avoid any further confusion:

AWB = A very smart looking boat that you would happily sail across the channel in.


MAB = A much less smart looking boat that you would happily sail across the Atlantic in.

 

[lw395]

Here's a simpler definition to avoid any further confusion:

AWB = A very smart looking boat that you would happily sail across the channel in.


MAB = A much less smart looking boat that you would happily sail across the Atlantic in.

What's the correct shortform for a tatty old boat that you would have reservations about crossing the harbour in?

 

[SlowlyButSurely]

What's the correct shortform for a tatty old boat that you would have reservations about crossing the harbour in?

I think it's MFV.

 

[asteven221]

What's the correct shortform for a tatty old boat that you would have reservations about crossing the harbour in?

I think its APoS.

A Pile of sh&*e.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"What's the correct shortform for a tatty old boat that you would have reservations about crossing the harbour in?"

HMS