Boaty Slang

[Talulah]

Perfectly good technical term

Bowdlerised by a lot of Victorian books into "cut splice", thus some people think that's its real name. But it doesn't involve cutting anything, and it does look like a ****, so it's clear where the truth lies

Pete

More on the c*** splice but to get the link to work replace **** with the actual word.
http://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php/****_splice

 

[oldbilbo]

I've done it, halfway up the mast of a square rigger - lots of grease, canvas wrapping, tarred marline, and the bosun's special "black varnish" mix. Not heard it called c***ing - I know it as worming, the other steps being parcelling and serving - but it does make sense because the grooves between the three strands of a laid rope are called the c***lines.

Pete

Aaaarh, Jim lad!!!

How few would begin to understand that old knotical pome "Worm and parcel with the lay, turn and serve the other way".......? And is that in itself a form of English haiku?

 

[Barnacle Bill]

We used to interchange the terms "roving fender" and "raving bender" (apologies to any roving fenders I may have offended ... ).

 

[prv]

Among a group I used to sail with, oilskin salopettes were always "rubber trousers".

The backstay was the "adjustable rear guyrope" after someone forgot the real name in a moment of stress and shouted that instead

Pete

 

[epervier]

Solent rig,

foresail flapping in the wind, donk on max revs

 

[jonrarit]

Our largest fender is called "Shirley" ........ Shirley Bassey...... "hey big fender"

 

[jac]

Solent rig,

foresail flapping in the wind, donk on max revs

Solent rig is usually Genny furled - main up and donk on!!

 

[jac]

Our largest fender is called "Shirley" ........ Shirley Bassey...... "hey big fender"

We had a fender called fluffy. Lanyard was a bit worn in the middle - children wouldn;t let me change it. ( have now done so - it got much too embarrassing)

 

[tico]

Aaaarh, Jim lad!!!

How few would begin to understand that old knotical pome "Worm and parcel with the lay, turn and serve the other way".......? And is that in itself a form of English haiku?

Damn you Bilbo
was just about to post that... Admiralty manual of Seamanship

PS: results in a terrible earworm!

 

[ronsurf]

C*nt-splice .... actually I don't think it was slang but it wouldn't half frighten the girly crew!

I use that splice to secure my tiller. Very useful.

The most commonly used slang on my boat is, "No, the other starboard.." but I don't think that's slang, more like ineptitude.

"Otto" is the Auto tiller - or Otto Tiller, to give him his full name

 

[prv]

Our largest fender is called "Shirley" ........ Shirley Bassey...... "hey big fender"

My dad refers to our big fender as "Fat Gladys". I don't know where this originally came from, but the name was previously applied to a big lump of foam rubber that he lies on when working underneath things.

Solent rig is usually Genny furled - main up and donk on!!

+1

Jib furled, main strapped hard amidships, 2500 revs and dead upwind

Pete

 

[GrahamD]

"Donk" seems to be in common use in this thread, and on the boats I sail.

 

[Daedelus]

String: any halyard, sheet, line or rope of any thickness, usually colour coded so, "pull on the bit of red string."

 

[30boat]

Stick for mast.

 

[duncan99210]

"Big orange b****cks" for the two large round fenders, carried on the pushpin rails. Don't ask, that just what they're called.

"Winch wench" - anyone working the anchor winch, although usually a duty carried out by SWMBO.

 

[Twister_Ken]

reverting to instructorspeak one I heard for the first time a few weeks back was "Steer, then gear".

The MOB fender was called Oscar. Apparently the MOB flag signal is 'O'. Must remember to run that up when Madame falls off.

 

[prv]

"Big orange b****cks" for the two large round fenders, carried on the pushpin rails. Don't ask, that just what they're called.

Mm, yes, the Army yachts out of Kiel used to each carry one big ball fender, usually hung off the stern as there wasn't room in the locker. It was known as "the bollock".

Pete

 

[trapezeartist]

"Feed the lobsters": to use the heads for disposal of non-liquid human effluent.

 

[snowleopard]

C*nt-splice .... actually I don't think it was slang but it wouldn't half frighten the girly crew!

I was taught that at school but they called it a 'cut splice' and I didn't learn the real name till I read Patrick O'Brien.

the grooves between the three strands of a laid rope are called the c***lines.

Likewise bowdlerised to 'contlines'.

 

[snowleopard]

On my boat we have a row of large lockers across the front of the bridgedeck. During building I spent a lot of time in there and SWMBO was amused by me popping my head out to ask for tools etc. She said I looked like the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's tea party so you might hear a call of 'Get a 10 from the starboard teapot'. (Our warps come in 10, 20 and 30 metre lengths, identified by 1, 2 or 3 whippings on each end.