boating terminology

[powerskipper]

How much do you stick to the correct word for the correct item.

bow = pointy end
stern = blunt end
mid ships = fat bit [ I said bit on git]
aft cabin = back bedroom
forward cabin = front bedroom
Galley = kitchen
stern quarter [ port or starboard] = back right or left corner.
warp = rope
heads = loo

Do you use any that I have not listed. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BIG_PLANS]

shafting your nips = nipping up the stern glands

 

[Lakesailor]

Heads = I'd leave it a few minutes

 

[Dipper]

I once went cross channel with a complete novice who spent the whole time trying to find a bit of rope on the boat. He would point to something triumphantly only to be told 'No, that's a halyard', 'No, that's a sheet', 'No, that's a painter', 'No, that's a warp' etc. Is there any rope on a boat?

 

[JKay]

On the bell

cheers Joe

 

[KCook]

WOT = big silly grin

 

[Jasondanger]

Port = Right .. or is it left
Starboard = Left .. or is it right

Is that a pontoon or another boat I have hit??
Or is it a finger and a vessel that I have collided with?

Its all garbage now that diesel is so expensive anyway!

 

[lenseman]

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I once went cross channel with a complete novice who spent the whole time trying to find a bit of rope on the boat. He would point to something triumphantly only to be told 'No, that's a halyard', 'No, that's a sheet', 'No, that's a painter', 'No, that's a warp' etc. Is there any rope on a boat?

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When I was in the RN, we were told there is only one 'rope' on a ship (a boat being a submarine) and that was the Bell Rope

 

[epervier]

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When I was in the RN, we were told there is only one 'rope' on a ship (a boat being a submarine) and that was the Bell Rope

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When I was in the RN, submarines were as you say, quite rightly called boats,

but, all the rest were Targets!
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SMs Andrew, Alliance, Grampus, Opportune, Resolution

 

[rickp]

I am reliably informed that narrowboats and dinghies have 'steering sticks' /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Rick

 

[Poignard]

Bolt rope.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Belowdecks = indoors or inside
Cockpit = upstairs
On deck = outside
Helm/at the wheel = driving

 

[oldgit]

Gin Palace = Anything bigger,better,newer or faster than your own boat.

 

[blueglass]

gone ashore in the jolly boat = gone to pub in the dhingy

 

[Brayman]

Shed = Front Cabin

 

[merlinwasp]

Anchor = Parked
Along side = Parked
Pick up a bouy = Parked
Run agound = Clipped the Kerb or parked

MW

 

[Sneds]

Aft cabin = kennel woof woof

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[Heigaro]

Mast = Sticky-up thing that carries the sails* - Oops! Sorry, forgot which forum I was on!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
*Sails = Big flappy things.
Thing = just about anything on or near a boat.
Boat = thing that stops you being a swimmer.
Swimmer = thing that you become when "Boat" becomes "Submarine".
Flag = early stage of "become knackered".
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[Melody]

We have a fair number of students for whom English is not their first language and I keep meaning to put together a dictionary of boating terminology.

Among the expressions our instructors have used that have caused blank faces are:

The wind's right on the nose
Steer towards that headland
and (you do this and that or whatever) ... and Bob's your uncle.

Please suggest others that you commonly use which a foreigner would not understand.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Yachts have whisky stains /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif