confusing nautical term

[michael_99]

Angus, no I don't, but I suppose they have them too. An old salt is an old salt where ever you come from..

I really miss the old "Mind your language" it was really funny.
Talking about confusion. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[stormeagle]

Do they do "Swallows & Amazons" in Danish?

 

[fireball]

I'd be more concerned about sailing between two warthogs to worry which was windward or leeward ... I think depth would be comming into it - either for me or the warthogs .... anyone tried one on a bbq? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[michael_99]

Stormeagle

Sorry, don't know that one, didn't go to playschool here. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[T_S]

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You can shelter in the lee of something i.e. behind it. Such as sheltering in the lee of an island. It is to be downwind of something and that can be safe.

A lee shore is the shore downwind of you, which means you are being blown towards it and to escape it you must head upwind. That is dangerous, especially if you are sailing.

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What to head upwind? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[powerskipper]

go into the wind, push into the wind, go up wind.....
means all of them /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[l'escargot]

No - a lee shore is dangerous /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[michael_99]

A leeward side is also the windward side of the island.?
Why can't a windward side be a windward side and a leeward shore be a leeward shore, so EVERYBODY can understand it, and not just old salts.
A lee shore should be on the leeward side to make sense, a shore should not take it name after the side of your boat.

 

[Lakesailor]

Bloody Hell!
It's a relative term. It relates to your boat, the island or another boat.
Every object that has a wind playing gently about it has a windward and leeward side.
If the shore is on your lee side it is a lee shore.

I would suggest taking up bowls.

 

[T_S]

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No - a lee shore is dangerous /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Thats more like it!...the way your post read, I interpreted as being ill advising sailing into the wind but ok to sail onto a lee shore!

 

[l'escargot]

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Thats more like it!...the way your post read, I interpreted as being ill advising sailing into the wind but ok to sail onto a lee shore!

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You have to read the whole sentence in one go for it to make sense /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif