Boating Slang?

[Lakesailor]

"I'll soon pump that out" is slang for - <font color="black">sh</font><font color="black">it</font> we're sinking.

 

[landaftaf]

dipping the gunnal (gunwale)
mainly done to impress the newbies - or wash off the puke on the lee side

 

[3reefs]

Favoured yachting term: Three sheets to the wind?

No, better still, the conversation between SWMBO and a guest:
SWMBO: "Oh look they've got their spinnaker stuck"
GUEST: "What's a spinnaker?"
SWMBO: "A big colourful sail that makes men shout a lot"

Says it all, dunnit?

 

[Lakesailor]

"Pissing into the wind" a foolish endeavour

 

[jimi]

Ladys tshirt front

Give way
Pair of well
trimmed spinakers

Rear

Arse like
a Contessa

 

[peterb]

[ QUOTE ]
................. force 8 increasing 9 imminant ................

this is VERY EXITING to sailors

[/ QUOTE ]

Not sure whether the lack of a "C" was deliberate, but it certainly made for accuracy!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Pump and dump - mainsail trimming on a planing boat in a big sea

Beat up and run down - what you do on a two mark race course

Gripping - things are getting a tad buttock-clenching

Rooster tail - your wake when you're really moving

 

[Pie]

"2 4 pull"
"In the groove"
"Get on the side"
"blowing a hoowly"

Not phrases but I liked saying the "swinge", and then connected in location there is the "race".

 

[FullCircle]

I miss having the stick in my ear. All I get now is a dull clunk as the quadrant hits the stop. Boo Hoo.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Ahh.......... want to swap boats?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

How about.....

"Hold on... she's rounding up..."

shortly followed by...

"getting that effin' reef in will ya"

Or my personal favourite...

"Bloody 'ell.... is that true or apparent?"

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Or alternatively.....

"Bent the bleedin' stanchions again......."

(Specially for Jimi that one /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

"Took one over the bow"

Has several nautical connotations.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[landaftaf]

I thought it was 2 4 6 heave

 

[Sgeir]

I think the fish has dropped out of my ear.

 

[landaftaf]

not heard the fish one

took a greeny means something else to a landlubber

 

[Sgeir]

Ahh! The Babel fish, dear boy!

 

[snowleopard]

Not that either - it's 2 6 heave.

Heave also has other meanings relating to strong winds.

 

[landaftaf]

yup - 2 6 heave ....... brings back memories of being under sail training in the 60's
thank you

 

[benjenbav]

Wan't "2,4,6, heave" a song by "Home Truths" own Tom Robinson back in the 70s or am I confusing it with "Sing if you're glad to be on starboard"